On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 17:06, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report about AIX. > > There are a lot of failures there, but many of them seem > to be due to the "file changed as we read it" diagnostic. > Can you please try the first failing testcase, but > run the 'truss' command on the tar that issues the diagnostic? > One way to do that is to edit the testsuite command, which is > simply a large shell script. If we look at the truss output, > we should be able to see the reason why 'tar' is failing. > Any chance you could give me an example of where you would suggest this change? changing line 2050 of tests/testsuite to this: truss tar cf archive directory 2>/var/tmp/truss.out Did nothing more than echo this line into tests/testsuite.dir/002/testsuite.log when I ran 'gmake check' and didn't create any truss output anywhere I can find. -- # include <stddisclaimer.h> /* Kevin Brott <[email protected]> */
