I noticed the tail-2/pid test fail recently (racy?) but couldn't reproduce it.
>From fc66fb4d99f2c7e71fadc85e2be476e817b6573e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:53:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] tests: tail-2/pid: include more info upon failure * tests/tail-2/pid: Print unexpected $state upon failing. --- tests/tail-2/pid | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/tail-2/pid b/tests/tail-2/pid index ff2f099..9d33e4f 100755 --- a/tests/tail-2/pid +++ b/tests/tail-2/pid @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ state=$(get_process_status_ $pid) if test -n "$state"; then case $state in S*) ;; - *) echo $0: process dead 1>&2; fail=1 ;; + *) echo "$0: process dead? (state=$state)" 1>&2; fail=1 ;; esac kill $pid fi -- 1.6.3.3.420.gd4b46 >From f9554bbe25bc7d979926628655713a9c0ddc6dbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:54:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: README-hacking tweak * README-hacking: Move the "While building..." sentence down to where it belongs. --- README-hacking | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index 9deba13..555128f 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ bootstrap script shown below, and will include: - Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/> - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/> -While building from a just-cloned source tree may require installing a -few prerequisites, later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient. - - Valgrind Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if @@ -39,6 +36,9 @@ version 1.10a or newer, as well as the xz program itself. Make sure you have the latest version of the XZ Utils from <http://tukaani.org/xz/> +While building from a just-cloned source tree may require installing a +few prerequisites, later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient. + * First GIT checkout You can get a copy of the source repository like this: -- 1.6.3.3.420.gd4b46 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils