[lfs] 01/02: inetutils: Document libls.sh failure again
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This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. git pushed a commit to branch trunk in repository lfs. commit cc6267a8570f8785af9040a07d5ed477ad329073 Author: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Wed Jul 23 11:23:13 2025 +0800 inetutils: Document libls.sh failure again I just hit it. See the added comment for analysis. --- chapter08/inetutils.xml | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter08/inetutils.xml b/chapter08/inetutils.xml index 5b4f32b78..63545e29b 100644 --- a/chapter08/inetutils.xml +++ b/chapter08/inetutils.xml @@ -109,12 +109,16 @@ <para>To test the results, issue:</para> <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen> -<!-- - <note><para>One test, libls.sh, may fail in the initial chroot - environment but will pass if the test is rerun after the LFS system - is complete. One test, ping-localhost.sh, will fail if the host - system does not have ipv6 capability.</para></note> ---> + + <!-- To editors: the failed test is "fail to disable sort with -f" which + runs tests/ls -f and checks if the output is **not** sorted. + But with ext4 there's a good chance the directory entries returned + by the kernel already happen to be sorted. Mounting a tmpfs on + $LFS/tmp seems able to make it pass but we don't do that by the + book. IMO the test is just misdesigned. --> + <para>One test named <filename>libls.sh</filename> is known to + fail sometimes.</para> + <para>Install the package:</para> <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen> -- To stop receiving notification emails like this one, please contact the administrator of this repository. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/lfs-book Unsubscribe: See the above information page