To trigger the bug, you'd have to run "make check" as a user with membership in no more than one group.
I noticed that syntax highlighting was all messed up for many lines starting there. >From 7ff3e79312f0a9b6bf2c3198cee5c32793ca3bf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 09:05:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] maint: init.cfg: fix a minor quoting bug * init.cfg (require_membership_in_two_groups_): This fixes a bug introduced by me in v8.15-8-gdd0e4c562. Luckily, the consequence of triggering the bug was the mere added backslash in the diagnostic: "...but running id -G\ either...". --- init.cfg | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/init.cfg b/init.cfg index 4259715c6..749d921c2 100644 --- a/init.cfg +++ b/init.cfg @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ require_membership_in_two_groups_() *' '*) ;; *) skip_ 'requires membership in two groups this test requires that you be a member of more than one group, -but running 'id -G'\'' either failed or found just one. If you really +but running '\''id -G'\'' either failed or found just one. If you really are a member of at least two groups, then rerun this test with COREUTILS_GROUPS set in your environment to the space-separated list of group names or numbers. E.g., --