Hello, While updating coreutils to 9.2 on Adélie Linux, I’ve run into a few interesting corner-cases in the test suite. As a note, our distribution is using musl as the libc.
1. `tests/misc/csplit-heap.sh` fails when /bin/sh is Bash I actually saw this on 9.1 as well, but I only saw it on one system and considered it a fluke since our auto builder infrastructure didn’t see the issue. Seeing it again in 9.2 made me look deeper, and it turns out that when /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash, the test fails with: ./tests/misc/csplit-heap.sh: xmalloc: cannot allocate 16085 bytes When /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash, the test no longer fails. However: 2. `tests/misc/tee.sh` fails when /bin/sh is Dash and `make` is run under Zsh When running the test suite from my default Zsh environment, and when /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash, I receive an error when running the tee test. If: - /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash; OR if - /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash, and - make is launched from a Bash or Dash shell, *not* a Zsh shell, Then the test passes. Both test runs with the respective failures have generated useful log files, which are attached. I don’t know if this is actually a bug in the coreutils test suite, or if the bugs perhaps lie in the shells. Best, -A. -- A. Wilcox (they/them) SW Engineering: C/C++, DevOps, POSIX Wilcox Technologies Inc.
coreutils-9.2-test-failure-csplit-heap.log
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coreutils-9.2-test-failure-tee.log
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