Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.30-rc2

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>]

On Wednesday 31 May 2017, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:16:48AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:48:46PM -0400, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> >> I'm still seeing this error (tested with
> >> util-linux-2.30-rc2-16-2ac1b on same Debian 8.1 system).
> >
> >Ah, I had another issues with ncurses on debian, so I forget to very
> >this one. Fixed now (I hope).
>
> Thanks, works now (tested with Debian 8.1, 7.6, Ubuntu 16.04, 15.04,
> 14.04).
>
> >> On alpine-linux, the compilation now fails with:
> >
> >So, now the header file <linux/version.h> is required by ./configure
> >on Linux. I guess it's not overkill.
>
> Yes, works well and the error message is clear.
> Adding linux-headers with `sudo apk add linux-headers` solves the
> issue.
>
> Now that it builds on alpine-linux, two other issues (not necessarily
> show-stoppers for the release):
>
> 1.
> The test infrastrucutre uses some GNU extensions which aren't
> available by default on Alpine-Linux (it has busybox instead of GNU
> coreuils). Specifically: ./tests/run.sh uses `#!/bin/bash`, `xargs
> -P` and `grep --after-context=1` .
> The `grep` at least is easy to fix as busybox's grep supports the
> short-option equivalent of `-A1`.
>
> As a work-around, the GNU programs can be installed on alpine with:
>     sudo apk add findutils bash grep

This is a known issue in the test-suite only. It is pseudo-documented 
in .travis-functions.sh, osx_prepare_check(). We require bash and 
non-POSIX features of readlink, seq, truncate, find, xargs, tar and 
sed.

>
> 2.
> After installing the gnu programs `make check` works, but few tests
> fail:

> ============
>    col: multibyte input                ... FAILED (col/multibyte)
> colcrt: regressions                    ...
>
>       : crash1                      ... FAILED
>       : (colcrt/regressions-crash1) crash2                      ...
>       : FAILED (colcrt/regressions-crash2) hang1                     
>       :  ... FAILED (colcrt/regressions-hang1)
>
>       ... FAILED (3 from 3 sub-tests)
> column: invalid multibyte              ... FAILED
> (column/invalid-multibyte) fdisk: invalid input tests            ...
> FAILED (fdisk/oddinput) getopt: options                        ...
>
>       : alternative_option_clash    ... FAILED
>       : (getopt/options-alternative_option_clash) posix_correctly    
>       :         ... FAILED (getopt/options-posix_correctly)

>       ... FAILED (2 from 29 sub-tests)
>   misc: swaplabel                      ... FAILED (misc/swaplabel)
> rename: exit codes                     ... FAILED (rename/exit_codes)
>   utmp: subsecond                      ... FAILED
> (utmp/utmpdump-subsecond) ==============
>
> Regarding the 'multibyte' failures - these could stem from
> musl-libc's differences (compared to glibc).


> 'utmp' failure might be because musl-libc does not implement utmp
> support (only stubs).

musl supports both utmp and utmpx. We are using utmpx. Could you show us 
all your test diffs?:

  find tests/diff -type f  | xargs tail -n +1

> I'm happy to test further if you have specific suggestions of what to
> test.
>
> -----
>
>
> Lastly,
> I've hit a snag when trying to run 'make dist' on the latest version.
> make failed with:

"make dist" is something we do not really care to make it fully 
portable. It should run on "usual" maintainer machines to provide 
portable tarballs for other machines. "make distcheck" will be even 
less portable.

> ===
> make[5]: Entering directory `/localdata2/sources/util-linux/po'
> File da.new.po does not exist. If you are a translator, you can
> create it through 'msginit'. make[5]: *** [da.new.po-create] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/localdata2/sources/util-linux/po'
> ===
>
> I have no clue when this is coming from (it didn't fail on in
> previous builds). Could be a problem on my system, or something else.
> Didn't investigate further (just manually removed 'da.new.*' from
> po/Makefile).
>
>
> regards,
>  - assaf
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