i am using cvs version of the book

coreutils-5.0
i have the following error

it comes during make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check


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Making check in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/coreutils-5.0/lib'
make check-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/coreutils-5.0/lib'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/coreutils-5.0/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/coreutils-5.0/lib'
Making check in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/coreutils-5.0/src'
rm -rf progs-readme progs-makefile
echo chgrp chown chmod cp dd dircolors du ginstall link ln dir vdir ls mkdir mkfifo mknod mv readlink rm rmdir shred stat sync touch unlink cat cksum comm csplit cut expand fmt fold head join md5sum nl od paste pr ptx sha1sum sort split sum tac tail tr tsort unexpand uniq wc basename date dirname echo env expr factor false id kill logname pathchk printenv printf pwd seq sleep tee test true tty whoami yes uname chroot hostid nice pinky users who uptime stty df groups nohup chroot df hostid nice pinky stty su uname uptime users who nohup \
| tr -s ' ' '\n' | sort -u > progs-makefile
sed -n '/^The programs .* are:/,/^[a-zA-Z]/p' ../README \
| sed -n '/^ */s///p' | tr -s ' ' '\n' > progs-readme
diff progs-makefile progs-readme && rm -rf progs-readme progs-makefile
30a31
> hostname
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/coreutils-5.0/src'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

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the probable erroe is with hostname patch for coreutils bcoz i tried compiling without this patch and it was compiling and did make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TEST=yes check correctly.

Plz help