bug#16530: Bootstrapping fails with missing m4/cu-progs.m4

2014-01-23 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, Just tried to compile coreutils from scratch, and encountered the following problem: === $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils $ cd coreutils $ ./bootstrap ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources... ./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib

bug#16530: Bootstrapping fails with missing m4/cu-progs.m4

2014-01-23 Thread Assaf Gordon
Follow-up: On 01/23/2014 11:47 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: Just tried to compile coreutils from scratch, and encountered the following problem: === $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils $ cd coreutils $ ./bootstrap ...snip... /usr/bin/m4: m4_esyscmd subprocess failed

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, Testing the latest coreutils (v8.22.16-be97f) on an old Ubuntu server, results in a test failure tests/chown/separator (log + strace below). System is: $ uname -a Linux club 2.6.32-24-server #43-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 16 16:05:42 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Bernhard Voelker
tag 16532 + moreinfo thanks On 01/23/2014 07:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: Hello, welcome back! Testing the latest coreutils (v8.22.16-be97f) on an old Ubuntu server, results in a test failure tests/chown/separator (log + strace below). $ strace ../src/chown 34574:users . 21 | grep -A 5 -B 5

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 01/23/2014 06:20 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 01/23/2014 07:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: $ strace ../src/chown 34574:users . 21 | grep -A 5 -B 5 chown fchownat(AT_FDCWD, ., 34574, 100, 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) ++ id -g + id_g=1000 + chown 34574:users . chown:

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 01/23/2014 11:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: On 01/23/2014 06:20 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 01/23/2014 07:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: $ strace ../src/chown 34574:users . 21 | grep -A 5 -B 5 chown fchownat(AT_FDCWD, ., 34574, 100, 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) ++ id -g +

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Assaf Gordon
This patch makes the test skip on my server (did not test it on other systems). On 01/23/2014 08:09 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/23/2014 11:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: So I guess this is not a bug, and can be closed. I'll just ignore this failure on this system. It is a false failure

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 01/24/2014 01:38 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: This patch makes the test skip on my server (did not test it on other systems). On 01/23/2014 08:09 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/23/2014 11:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: So I guess this is not a bug, and can be closed. I'll just ignore this

bug#16530: Bootstrapping fails with missing m4/cu-progs.m4

2014-01-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 16530 notabug close 16530 stop On 01/23/2014 06:22 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: Follow-up: On 01/23/2014 11:47 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: Just tried to compile coreutils from scratch, and encountered the following problem: === $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils $ cd coreutils $

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 01/24/2014 01:43 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/24/2014 01:38 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: This patch makes the test skip on my server (did not test it on other systems). On 01/23/2014 08:09 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/23/2014 11:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: So I guess this is not a bug,

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 01/23/2014 09:32 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Actually I messed up the login in the suggestion. I think the above should be s/!=/=/ which I've done in the attached patch. If you could confirm it was skipped on your system it would be great. I'll push soon anyway. Please don't push yet - it

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 01/23/2014 09:46 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: On 01/23/2014 09:32 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: If you could confirm it was skipped on your system it would be great. Please don't push yet - it doesn't work, but for un-expected reason: On my strange system For completeness, attached is the test

bug#16532: Test Fail: tests/chown/separator

2014-01-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 01/24/2014 02:46 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: On 01/23/2014 09:32 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Actually I messed up the login in the suggestion. I think the above should be s/!=/=/ which I've done in the attached patch. If you could confirm it was skipped on your system it would be great. I'll