On 09/06/2011 03:21 PM, Ben Walton wrote: > Excerpts from Jim Meyering's message of Tue Sep 06 05:09:50 -0400 2011: > > Hi All, > >> I've confirmed that with these (though not yet with your latest irix >> fix) changes, all coreutils tests pass on both Fedora 15 and Solaris >> 10. > > I found yesterday that the misc/stdbuf test fails on Solaris 9, > although I think the failure would happen on 10 as well. The failing > part of the test is: > > + stdbuf -o1 no_such > stdbuf: failed to find `libstdbuf.so' > + test 125 = 127 > + fail=1 > > After walking through the code, I think that because no_such is not in > a PATH (obviously) the default locations (. and $PKGLIBEXECDIR) are > searched unsuccessfully for libstdbuf.so. If > $PKGLIBEXECDIR/libstdbuf.so exists (I tested this), the test passes as > expected. The other tests pass because they are running tools that > live in the same directory as libstdbuf.so so stdbuf.c:set_LD_PRELOAD > is happy. > > I think this is entirely a test bug and that the program is > functioning correctly. A valid fix, if the previous statements are > correct would be to do something like changing no_such to > $srcdir/no_such. This should force program_path to be $srcdir and > thus the search for libstdbuf.so would be successful.
Thanks. I think it is a bug though which should be fixed by: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=197cd09 cheers, Pádraig.
