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* README: Request VERBOSE=yes output when reporting test failures.
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Special thanks to Paul Eggert, Brian Matthews, Bruce Evans, Karl Berry,
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Kaveh Ghazi, and François Pinard for help with debugging and porting
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these programs. Many thanks to all of the people who have taken the
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time to submit problem reports and fixes. All contributed changes are
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attributed in the ChangeLog file.
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attributed in the ChangeLog files.
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And thanks to the following people who have provided accounts for
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portability testing on many different types of systems: Bob Proulx,
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Christian Robert, François Pinard, Greg McGary, Harlan Stenn,
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Joel N. Weber, Mark D. Roth, Matt Schalit, Nelson H. F. Beebe,
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Réjean Payette, Sam Tardieu.
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Thanks to Michael Stone for inflicting test releases of the fileutils
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Thanks to Michael Stone for inflicting test releases of this package
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on Debian's unstable distribution, and to all the kind folks who used
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that distribution and found and reported bugs.
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@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ If you run the tests on a SunOS4.1.4 system, expect the ctime-part of
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the ls `time-1' test to fail. I believe that is due to a bug in the
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way Sun implemented link(2) and chmod(2).
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***************************************
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Last-minute notes, before coreutils-5.0
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---------------------------------------
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***********************
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HPUX 11.x build failure
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-----------------------
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A known problem exists when compiling on HPUX on both hppa and ia64
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in 64-bit mode (i.e. +DD64) on all known HPUX 11.x versions. This
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@@ -96,6 +96,20 @@ problems. We get much less test coverage in that mode, and it's
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arguably more important that these tools work well when run by
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root than when run by less privileged users.
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***************
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Reporting bugs:
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---------------
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IMPORTANT: if you take the time to report a test failure,
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please be sure to include the output of running `make check'
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in verbose mode for each each failing test. For example,
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if the test that fails is tests/mv/hard-link-1, then you
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would run this command:
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env VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests/mv TESTS=hard-link-1 >> log 2>&1
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and then include the contents of the file `log' in your bug report.
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***************************************
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There are pretty many tests, but nowhere near as many as we need.
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@@ -135,9 +149,9 @@ use the versions of
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Usually it's fine to use versions that are newer than those specified.
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These programs all recognize the `--version' option. When reporting
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bugs, please include in the subject line both the package name/version
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and the name of the program for which you found a problem.
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All of these programs except `test' recognize the `--version' option.
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When reporting bugs, please include in the subject line both the package
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name/version and the name of the program for which you found a problem.
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For general documentation on the coding and usage standards
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this distribution follows, see the GNU Coding Standards,
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