I've been trying to understand why the findutils testsuites were
failing in Cross-LFS. The first problem (the xargs suite) could be
fixed by adding a /bin/echo symlink (we were using /tools/bin/echo when
the test ran, and the xargs tests were rewritten for 4.2.25 - if no
action is specified for xargs, /bin/echo is the default). However,
completing the xargs tests without failure meant the locate tests then
tried to run - to cut a long story short, these tests all work if
coreutils has been installed in the final system.
I ran builds with our then current order, and with coreutils moved (to
where it is in LFS) and compared the results, expecting to find a binary
was different. In fact, the binaries were all identical (except for the
normal variation in a little of the libc++ stuff), but I discovered that
the installed updatedb differed.
Updatedb is a script. With the build order rearranged, it references
/usr/bin/sort. With the old build order, it references /tools/bin/sort
which obviously only works when /tools is available.
Fixed in r6968, users of previous builds should edit /usr/bin/updatedb
and edit the several sort="/tools/bin/sort" lines.
Ken
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