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02/11/2004 10:02:10 PM (20 years ago)
Author:
Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>
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Making the test suites in chapter 5 more clearly optional.

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    2020<para>Coreutils has an issue when compiled against Glibc-&glibc-version;.
    21 Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities (head, tail, sort etc)
    22 will reject their traditional syntax which has been in use for approximately 30
    23 years. The old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility must be preserved until
    24 the many places where it is used can be updated. More details are provided in
    25 the comments inside the patch itself. Use of this patch is by no means
    26 compulsory but opting not to use it means you'll have deal with the consequences
    27 yourself, i.e. patch the many software packages that use the old syntax. Apply
    28 the patch:</para>
     21Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities
     22(<command>head</command>, <command>tail</command>, <command>sort</command>,
     23and others) will reject their traditional syntax which has been in use for
     24approximately 30 years. This old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility
     25should be preserved until the many places where it is used can be updated.
     26More details on this are provided in the comments inside the patch itself. Use
     27of this patch is by no means compulsory, but not using it means you'll have to
     28deal with the consequences yourself: patch the many packages that use the old
     29syntax. Therefore, better apply the patch:</para>
    2930
    3031<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch;</userinput></screen>
    … …  
    3839<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
    3940
    40 <para>As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the
    41 temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Coreutils
    42 test suite anyway, the following command will do so:</para>
    43 
    44 <screen><userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen>
    45 
    46 <para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
    47 
    48 <itemizedlist>
    49 <listitem><para><userinput>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</userinput>: This tells the
    50 test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively
    51 expensive on some platforms. However, they are generally not a problem on
    52 Linux.</para></listitem>
    53 </itemizedlist>
     41<para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue:
     42<userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput>. The
     43<emphasis>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</emphasis> parameter tells the test suite to
     44run several additional tests that are considered relatively expensive on some
     45platforms but generally are not a problem on Linux.)</para>
    5446
    5547<para>And install the package:</para>
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