Re: bug-coreutils

[Mariusz Ustyjanczuk]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Mariusz Ustyjanczuk wrote:
> > I was trying to install coreutils and everything was ok until i type 'make
> > check'. I got error:
> >
> > < chmod: getting attributes of `d/no-x/y': Permission denied
> > > chmod: `d/no-x': Permission denied
> > FAIL: no-x
> > [...]
> > 1 of 5 tests failed
> > Please report to address@hidden
>
> Thank you for reporting that problem.  It is most appreciated it.
>
> It happens that this bug was just recently reported and diagnosed on
> 21 Jun 2004 where Jim Meyering wrote the following:
>
> > This is not due to a bug in the tools themselves.
> > Rather it is due to a weakness in the test harness
> > that's exposed only when running `make check' as root
> > and when some other version of a tool like chmod or rm
> > is first in your PATH.
>
> Then he includes this patch which has not yet been released but is
> still in the development code.  Since the problem was in the test
> frame and not in the actual code you can safely ignore this failure
> for this release.  It will be fixed in the next release.
>

Ok. I fixed it. I have changed UMASK from 077 to 022 and now works fine,
no errors. Thanks a lot for a help.


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