Hello, On my old Linux box (Intel Pentium 200 MMX, Debian bo, kernel 2.0.40, gcc 2.7.2.1, libc 5.4.33, GNU ld cygnus-2.7.1, libiconv 1.12, pth 2.0.7, i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1, autoconf 2.61, fileutils 3.16, Make 3.75, bash 2.0.0(1)) during automake 1.10.1 build, make check fails one test:
| FAIL: instsh2.test The cause is an invalid date format for touch: | $ ./instsh2.test | [...] | + touch -t 198309271735.59 d1/file | touch: invalid date format `198309271735.59' Indeed this old touch from fileutils 3.16 used a different format, with the year at the end: | $ touch --help | [...] | -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time | -t STAMP use MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] instead of current time Once the -t stamp reordered, or replaced by -d "27 Sep 1983 17:35:59 UTC", this test succeeds. touch-format.patch attached. Alain.
diff -prud automake-1.10.1/tests/defs.in automake-1.10.1.mod/tests/defs.in --- automake-1.10.1/tests/defs.in Mon Jan 21 23:11:41 2008 +++ automake-1.10.1.mod/tests/defs.in Thu Apr 3 10:37:02 2008 @@ -328,11 +328,11 @@ sleep='sleep @MODIFICATION_DELAY@' testsrcdir=$srcdir unset srcdir -# An old timestamp that can be given to a file, in "touch -t" format. +# An old timestamp that can be given to a file, in "touch -d" format. # The time stamp should be portable to all file systems of interest. # Just for fun, choose the exact time of the announcement of the GNU project # in UTC; see <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html>. -old_timestamp=198309271735.59 +old_timestamp="27 Sep 1983 17:35:59 UTC" # is_newest FILE FILES # -------------------- diff -prud automake-1.10.1/tests/instsh2.test automake-1.10.1.mod/tests/instsh2.test --- automake-1.10.1/tests/instsh2.test Mon Jan 21 23:11:41 2008 +++ automake-1.10.1.mod/tests/instsh2.test Thu Apr 3 10:28:59 2008 @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ test -f d3/y # Do not change the timestamps when using -C. echo foo >file ./install-sh -C file d1 -TZ=UTC0 touch -t $old_timestamp d1/file +touch -d "$old_timestamp" d1/file ./install-sh -C file d1 is_newest file d1/file echo foo1 >file
