Re: Bug#442040: coreutils: FTBFS on PPC in seq test suite

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 the mental interface of
Bram Senders told:

> Package: coreutils
> Version: 6.10~20070907
> Severity: serious
> Justification: no longer builds from source
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I cannot build the current coreutils from experimental from source on
> PowerPC, because of a failure in the seq test suite:
> 
> === 8< ===
> Making check in seq
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/bram/Source/coreutils/coreutils-6.10~20070907/build-tree/coreutils-6.10~20070907/tests/seq'
> /usr/bin/make  check-TESTS
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/bram/Source/coreutils/coreutils-6.10~20070907/build-tree/coreutils-6.10~20070907/tests/seq'
> -: test float-3: stdout mismatch, comparing float-3.O (actual) and float-3.1 (expected)
> *** float-3.O   Wed Sep 12 12:47:28 2007
> --- float-3.1   Wed Sep 12 12:47:28 2007
> ***************
> *** 1,3 ****
>   10.8
>   10.9
> - 11.0
> --- 1,2 ----
> FAIL: basic
> === >8 ===

Confirmed! Same build in a pbuilder environment with sid sources on
a PowerBook5,6.

Elimar


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