On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:07 -0800 Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote:
> sam sirlin wrote: > ... > > This is, I believe the relevant section: > > Thanks for the report. > That is just what I needed. > > > FAIL: cp/cp-parents (exit: 1) > > ============================= > ... > > ++ ls -ld e/d/a > > ++ cut -b-10 > > + p=drwxr-xr-x > > + case $p in > > + fail=1 > > ++ ls -ld g/sym > > ++ cut -b-10 > > + p=drwxr-xr-x > > + case $p in > > + fail=1 > > ++ ls -ld e/d/a/b/c > > ++ cut -b-10 > > + p=drwxr-xr-x > > + case $p in > > ++ ls -ld g/sym/b/c > ... > > However, that test is rather old, and this is the first > report of its failure I've seen in a long time, so I expect > there must be something unusual about your environment. > > I build on AMD/rhel-6 pretty regularly and have never seen that, > but I'm usually using local ext4 or tmpfs partitions. > > Can you give more detail? > On what type of file system is your build dir? (i.e., run df -T .) > If it's NFS, what can you tell me about the server? It is indeed NFS, fairly big (2.3T), I think NAS, linux (striped down), xfs filesystem. -- sam sirlin <[email protected]>
