~ruther/guix-local: gnu: coreutils: Disable inotify-dir-recreate test

6ba1058df0c4ce5611c2367531ae5c3cdc729ab4 — Carl Dong 5 years ago e4aa346

gnu: coreutils: Disable inotify-dir-recreate test

This test fails on filesystems where tail detects that it cannot use
inotify safely. See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47935 for more details.

* gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils)[phases]: Disable
  inotify-dir-recreate tests, quote Hurd substitute* call to reduce
  rebuilds.

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1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

M gnu/packages/base.scm

M gnu/packages/base.scm => gnu/packages/base.scm +10 -6

@@ 378,13 378,17 @@ used to apply commands with arbitrarily long arguments.")
                        (("/bin/sh") (which "sh")))
                      (substitute* (find-files "tests" "\\.sh$")
                        (("#!/bin/sh") (string-append "#!" (which "sh"))))))
-                 ,@(if (hurd-target?)
-                       `((add-after 'unpack 'remove-tests
-                           (lambda _
-                             (substitute* "Makefile.in"
+                 (add-after 'unpack 'remove-tests
+                   (lambda _
+                     ,@(if (hurd-target?)
+                           '((substitute* "Makefile.in"
                                ;; this test hangs
-                               (("^ *tests/misc/timeout-group.sh.*") "")))))
-                       '()))))
+                               (("^ *tests/misc/timeout-group.sh.*") "")))
+                           '())
+                     (substitute* "Makefile.in"
+                       ;; fails on filesystems where inotify cannot be used,
+                       ;; more info in #47935
+                       (("^ *tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh.*") "")))))))
    (synopsis "Core GNU utilities (file, text, shell)")
    (description
     "GNU Coreutils package includes all of the basic command-line tools that