[csw-maintainers] Failing tests for CSWfindutils

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Gordon,

Am 24.08.2010 um 04:36 schrieb Gordon Marler:

> While working to update the CSWfindutils GAR recipe, I'm running into a problem with a few of the tests.  My latest attempt has been checked into the SVN repo, and the failures are documented there.
> 
> These break down into two categories:
> 
> 1. Those that depend on the regex library delivered with the findutils source, as it's expecting to find the one provided by GNU libc, and Solaris doesn't provide it.  As far as I can tell, we're forced to either rely on the regex provided with the source,

This sounds reasonable to me.

> or statically build/link against some recent GNU libc.:
> 
> 2. Some permissioning problems that prevent 4 of the tests from running.  Can't find the source of these issues so far.

This may have something to do with the NFS mounted homedirectory you are testing on.
Are the tests failing on Sparc also as these are lofs?


Best regards

  -- Dago