Comment 1 for bug 25084

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 23:15:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Stigge <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: tar: FTBFS: Failed tests

Package: tar
Version: 1.15.1-2
Severity: serious

Hi,

building the package tar in a clean sid build environment
(with pbuilder) on i386 results in:

=========================================================================
[...]
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
/usr/bin/make genfile
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../lib -I../lib -I../src -O2 -g -Wall -MT genfile.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/genfile.Tpo" -c -o genfile.o genfile.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/genfile.Tpo" ".deps/genfile.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/genfile.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
gcc -O2 -g -Wall -o genfile genfile.o ../lib/libtar.a
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
/usr/bin/make check-local
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
/bin/sh ./testsuite
## -------------------------- ##
## GNU tar 1.15.1 test suite. ##
## -------------------------- ##
  1: tar version ok
  2: decompressing from stdin FAILED (pipe.at:50)
  3: options ok
  4: append ok
  5: deleting a member after a big one ok
  6: deleting a member from stdin archive ok
  7: deleting members with long names ok
  8: deleting a large last member ok
  9: deleting non-existing member ok
 10: extract01 ok
 11: extracting symlinks over an existing file ok
 12: extraction loops ok
 13: extract + fnmatch ok
 14: extracting selected members from pax ok
 15: gzip ok
 16: incremental ok
 17: ignfail ok
 18: link count gt 2 ok
 19: --listed for individual files ok
 20: working --listed FAILED (listed02.at:148)
 21: V7 and long names ok
 22: multivolume dumps from pipes ok
 23: skipping a straddling member ok
 24: MV archive & long filenames ok
 25: old archives ok
 26: recurse ok
 27: same-order01 ok
 28: same-order02 ok
 29: sparse01 ok
 30: volume ok
 31: compressed format recognition ok
 32: gtarfail skipped (gtarfail.at:38)
 33: gtarfail2 skipped (gtarfail2.at:41)
 34: multi-fail skipped (multi-fail.at:86)
 35: ustar-big-2g skipped (ustar-big-2g.at:36)
 36: ustar-big-8g skipped (ustar-big-8g.at:36)
 37: pax-big-10g skipped (pax-big-10g.at:36)

## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

ERROR: 31 tests were run,
2 failed unexpectedly.
6 tests were skipped.
## -------------------------- ##
## testsuite.log was created. ##
## -------------------------- ##

Please send `testsuite.log' and all information you think might help:

   To: <email address hidden>
   Subject: [GNU tar 1.15.1] testsuite: 2 20 failed

You may investigate any problem if you feel able to do so, in which
case the test suite provides a good starting point.

make[3]: *** [check-local] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
=========================================================================

I also tested this on sparc (2.6.12-1-sparc64) where even more tests failed:

=========================================================================
[...]
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
/usr/bin/make check-local
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
/bin/sh ./testsuite
## -------------------------- ##
## GNU tar 1.15.1 test suite. ##
## -------------------------- ##
  1: tar version ok
  2: decompressing from stdin FAILED (pipe.at:50)
  3: options ok
  4: append ok
  5: deleting a member after a big one ok
  6: deleting a member from stdin archive ok
  7: deleting members with long names ok
  8: deleting a large last member ok
  9: deleting non-existing member ok
 10: extract01 ok
 11: extracting symlinks over an existing file ok
 12: extraction loops ok
 13: extract + fnmatch ok
 14: extracting selected members from pax ok
 15: gzip ok
 16: incremental FAILED (incremental.at:58)
 17: ignfail ok
 18: link count gt 2 ok
 19: --listed for individual files FAILED (listed01.at:58)
 20: working --listed FAILED (listed02.at:148)
 21: V7 and long names ok
 22: multivolume dumps from pipes ok
 23: skipping a straddling member ok
 24: MV archive & long filenames ok
 25: old archives ok
 26: recurse ok
 27: same-order01 ok
 28: same-order02 ok
 29: sparse01 ok
 30: volume ok
 31: compressed format recognition ok
 32: gtarfail skipped (gtarfail.at:38)
 33: gtarfail2 skipped (gtarfail2.at:41)
 34: multi-fail skipped (multi-fail.at:86)
 35: ustar-big-2g skipped (ustar-big-2g.at:36)
 36: ustar-big-8g skipped (ustar-big-8g.at:36)
 37: pax-big-10g skipped (pax-big-10g.at:36)

## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

ERROR: 31 tests were run,
4 failed unexpectedly.
6 tests were skipped.
## -------------------------- ##
## testsuite.log was created. ##
## -------------------------- ##

Please send `testsuite.log' and all information you think might help:

   To: <email address hidden>
   Subject: [GNU tar 1.15.1] testsuite: 2 16 19 20 failed

You may investigate any problem if you feel able to do so, in which
case the test suite provides a good starting point.

make[3]: *** [check-local] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
=========================================================================

Thanks for considering.

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