Jim Meyering wrote:
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bruno Haible wrote:
Building a coreutils snapshot (2007-02-21) from http//"meyering.net/cu/
on OSF/1 4.0d with the native cc shows three problems:
2) "make check" failure of du/slink.
The 'out' file produced by this test has size 0 for all sylimks. The same
happens for /bin/du, so it's not a problem in the code of 'du'. Probably
this type of file system needs to be excluded, like 'xfs' is excluded.
The type of file system in this case is 'nfsv3'. The NFS server in this
case is dedicated hardware designed for use as a file server. This
workaround workd for me (causes the test to be skipped).
...except I haven't had this failure on OSF 4.0g on nfsv3 file systems.
Wouldn't it be better to skip on nfsv3 only on OSF 4.0d or earlier?

Yes, that would be better.  Propose a patch!

Ok. Instead of:

- if test -s tmp; then

...do:

+ if test -s tmp && test `uname -v` -le FAILING-OSF-VERSION; then

...replacing "FAILING-OSF-VERSION" with the most recent version of OSF known to break (i.e. 4.0d, unless someone has access to 4.0e). How's that? (I should be able to test 4.0f for you later, but it might not be today.)

--
Matthew
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  -- Yoda (Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones)



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