On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Matthew Burgess <matt...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > On 31/08/2011 18:51, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I've noticed that there is a spurious file, /t, created in the latest >> builds of LFS. The file is 2 bytes long, a 0xff followed by a newline. >> >> It is a file generated by one of the tests in grep. I'm not sure how to >> find which test. It appears to be harmless and the easiest way to >> address it is to run: >> >> rm /t >> >> after the make check. >> >> Thoughts? > > tests/unibyte-bracket-expr is the culprit (it does `cp $in /t`). > Frustratingly a grep for '/t' in the source tree would have found it, > but I ended up spotting it by doing `watch -n1 ls /` in another terminal > window while the tests were running to find it, thinking the tests were > probably too convoluted to spot it through code inspection. I'm not > sure why the test does that copy; removing it has no effect - the test > still passes. I'll send a patch upstream, but I guess the book could > just remove the line prior to running either ./configure or the tests > themselves. > > Regards, > > Matt. > --
\t usually denominates a tab... -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
