Michael Deutschmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When testing coreutils-6.3, I observed a make check failure which I have > judged to be spurious.
Thank you for the report. > The test was ls/stat_dtype, which verifies that `ls' is using the > dirent.d_type feature -- which is not provided by all kernels and > filesystems. While the test does try to skip systems that don't support > it, it assumes the feature is available on all ext2 filesystems. This is > not so. I'm not surprised. I was counting on someone like you to tell me how to perform the check reliably :-) > In my case, I'm using the lightweight Linux 2.0.40 kernel, which doesn't > support that feature for any filesystem type. > Also, I understand that > even on a cutting edge kernel, the feature will not be available if the > given ext2 filesystem was originally formatted for compatibility to old > kernels. Can you point to documentation supporting that? For now, I'll skip the test for linux-2.0.x _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
