coreutils-8.10 fail: cp/sparse-fiemap

randalleg · 06-21-2011, 02:04 PM

I just starting building another LFS on a differet box to avert my frustration of getting my wireless to work on my other BLFS project and for the first time in three builds ran across this error in coreutils chapter 6.22 of LFS version 6.8

I found a solution on the web pretty quickly but I didnt see it in this forum so maybe I missed it but I thought I'd post it regardless and if anything maybe someone can explain why it happened or someone else will find their solution faster.

Anyway I applied this patch which isnt in the book but on the website;

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patc...fiemap-1.patch

Maybe somebody can break down what was going on there even though I got past it Im always curious to hear why. Most of what I read through google seemed a bit over my head!!!!

Andrew Benton · 06-24-2011, 06:13 AM

FYI The patch you linked to only alters the tests, it doesn't alter anything else. Presumably you were getting an error while running the tests? This patch makes the error go away, it doesn't alter coreutils at all

randalleg · 06-27-2011, 12:53 AM

Interesting to know. I wonder why I was getting the error!!!

linjoy42 · 07-26-2011, 01:35 AM

Hello,

This is my first post to linuxquestions forums, but I've used them for resources for a while. I can usually find an answer to a question before I need to ask it. Anyway, I'm building lfs for my first time (version 6.8). I've reached the chapter 6.22 coreutils-8.10 install and ran into the same error as above. I found this on the gnu bug list for cp/sparce-fiemap.

Quote:

bug#8532: FAIL: cp/sparse-fiemap

* tests/cp/sparse-fiemap: Parenthesize ternary expression used
as an argument to awk's printf. Otherwise, gawk 3.0.1 and the
one from debian stable's original-awk would get a syntax error.

EDIT:

The line they are referring to can be found by grep-ing for awk in tests/cp/sparse-fiemap

Code:

root:/sources/coreutils-8.10# grep awk tests/cp/sparse-fiemap
    | awk '/^ *[0-9]/ {printf "%d %d ", $2 , (NF < 5 ? $NF : $5) } END {print ""}'

I did this to make nice the offending expression

Code:

sed -i -e 's/NF < 5 ? $NF : $5/(&)/' tests/cp/sparse-fiemap

Unfortunately this did not fix my problem. I looked over the lfs patch suggested above, but it doesn't look like it actually fixes a problem as was mentioned earlier. I found the same syntactical error in the file tests/filefrag-extent-compare and applied a similar modification, but neither change has had any effect on the test. I also did a make distclean and completely recompiled before testing.