I've been working on updating perl, automake, kernel, gmp, and procps. Adding the new packages creates a couple of new errors during the make check process.
090-coreutils:FAIL: tests/df/skip-rootfs.sh This only seems to fail inside chroot. It may be related to changing /etc/mtab -> /proc/self/mounts. Before the mtab change the test was skipped. In my case, a simple df inside chroot fails because I have /mnt/qemu1 mounted in the host where df sees it in /proc/self/mounts and it is not a mount point inside chroot. Creating the mount point inside chroot seems sufficient to allow the test to pass. ------- 103-automake:FAIL: t/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.tap 280 - ... and with the same diagnostic of 'automake -a' I'm not sure why this fails. It is only failure out of about 3000 tests. ------- 124-texinfo:FAIL: test_scripts/formatting_unknown_nodes_renamed.sh 124-texinfo:FAIL: prove.sh These seem to be related to the perl update. ------- The question is how to handle these in the book. The easy way is to just mention that they fail. We could also change the Makefiles to skip the tests, but I'm not sure that hiding the failures is the right way to go in these cases. Comments? -- Bruce -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
