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Test failure for e2fsprogs 1.02
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Feb 5 17:28:44 1996
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:17:58 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Original-Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:09:49 -0500
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Test failure for e2fsprogs 1.02
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As some of you have noticed, the recently released version of e2fsprogs,
version 1.02, may fail a regression test --- f_dup2 --- when you compile
it from the source distribution. This will happen if you compile it on
an ELF system; the problem is that e2fsck is calculating a floating
point number, and a.out and ELF systems are producing different results.
(6.2% versus 6.3%). I generated the test case results using a a.out
binary, and so people compiling e2fsck using ELF will see a regression
test failure when the build process runs the e2fsck test suite.
You can ignore this test failure for 1.02; I'll fix this problem in the
next release, probably by not using floating point (which in general is
the correct solution to many problems :-).
For future reference, when reporting a problem with a failed test case,
look at the tests directory, and do a "ls *.failed". For each test that
failed, the Makefile will generated a diff file comparing the expected
and actual output of e2fsck. Please send me that diff file for any
failed tests; this will help me determine how and why the test case
failed.
Thanks!!
- Ted
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