On Tuesday 08 February 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > Chris Clayton wrote: > > Firstly, please cc me on any reply because I'm not subscribed. > > > > I'm trying to build coreutils-8.10 but am getting a failure when I run > > make check. > > > > The failure occurs in check cp/sparse-fiemap and the log of that check is > > as follows: > > > > make check-TESTS > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/chris/rpm/BUILD/coreutils-8.10/tests' > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/chris/rpm/BUILD/coreutils-8.10/tests' > > FAIL: cp/sparse-fiemap > > ============================================== > > GNU coreutils 8.10: tests/test-suite.log > > ============================================== > > > > 1 of 1 test failed. > > > > .. contents:: :depth: 2 > > > > > > FAIL: cp/sparse-fiemap (exit: 1) > > ================================ > > Thanks for the report. > I suspect that is merely a weakness in the test script and not a real > problem, and in fact Pádraig Brady posted a patch that probably fixes it > here: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.announce/65/focus=867 >
Indeed, Pádraig's patch does fix the problem. :) > Just in case, can you tell us about your system > (i.e., uname -a) and file system type (df -T .) ? Just for the record I was building on 2.6.37 (and tried 2.6.38-rc4 too) and the fs was ext4 mounted via loop (by the test script) Thanks to Jim and Pádraig, Chris -- The more I see, the more I know. The more I know, the less I understand. Changing Man - Paul Weller
