Section 5 of the "INSTALL" file for coreutils says that "make installcheck" will repeat the self-checks, but using the binaries in their final installed locations.
I cannot figure out what "make installcheck" is doing, but surely it is not doing that. It doesn't seem to even visit the final installed location of the binaries at all. I tried this against versions 8.16 (tarball), 8.14 (tarball), and the git HEAD, on both openSUSE 12.1 and on Cygwin. I do all the work as non-root, and for ./configure, I always specified a --prefix that specifies a not-currently-existent directory name within my home directory (and no other options) Thanks, Jeff
