On second thought, that patch is so obviously needed that I installed
it on the trunk. Here it is again. Not sure whether it should be on
the b5.9x branch at this point.
2006-06-11 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/cp/same-file: Execute 'ls' in the C locale, so that it
uses POSIX time stamp formats. Problem reported by John Nixon in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00062.html>.
--- tests/cp/same-file 23 Jun 2004 15:07:04 -0000 1.39
+++ tests/cp/same-file 11 Jun 2006 07:58:03 -0000
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ for args in 'foo symlink' 'symlink foo'
# and put brackets around the output.
test -s _err && echo "[`sed 's/^[^:][^:]*:/cp:/' _err`]"
# Strip off all but the file names.
- ls="`ls -gG --ignore=_err . \
+ ls="`LC_ALL=C ls -gG --ignore=_err . \
| sed \
-e '/^total /d' \
-e 's/^[^ ]* *[^ ]* *[^ ]* *[^ ]* *[^ ]* *[^ ]* *//'`"
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