On 10/10/2011 10:09 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 10/08/2011 03:46 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: >>> On NetBSD 5.1/x86: 10 failures >>> >>> FAIL: split/l-chunk >> >> This one at least was due to missing /dev/zero > > Well, it may have been due to a missing /dev/zero. > But the NetBSD 5.1/x86 machine I was testing on has /dev/zero: > > NetBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #0: Sat Nov 6 13:19:33 UTC 2010 > > Welcome to NetBSD! > > -bash-4.1$ ls -l /dev/zero > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 12 Dec 20 2010 /dev/zero > -bash-4.1$ test -c /dev/zero > -bash-4.1$ echo $? > 0
Oh. Hmm, perhaps lseek() on /dev/zero gives ENOENT on NetBSD? I presume there are platforms without /dev/zero but if there are none we're interested in porting too then the require_dev_zero_ check would be redundant. I'll see if there is a way we can check for this in the test. cheers, Pádraig.
