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coreutils: Redirect stdin for test suite to prevent two failures

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The tests affected are test-getlogin and test/tty/tty.sh.  We need an
errata for 12.1.
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Xi Ruoyao 2024-03-02 00:03:28 +08:00
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@ -123,20 +123,18 @@ FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \
<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester . </userinput></screen>
<para>Now run the tests:</para>
<!-- To editors: in jhalfs the standard input is always piped to "make"
so the test failures are not reproducible in jhalfs even if
running the build in a PTY. Don't use jhalfs to test if we can
remove < /dev/null. -->
<para>Now run the tests (using <filename>/dev/null</filename> for the
standard input, or two tests may be broken if building LFS in a
graphical terminal or a session in SSH or GNU Screen etc. because the
standard input is connected to a PTY from host distro, and the device
node for such a PTY cannot be accessed from the LFS chroot
environment):</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"</userinput></screen>
<!-- Sometimes skipped, but if not it may fail.
Please DO NOT remove or comment out this unless we can fully
understand it!
<para>The test-getlogin test may fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
20240226: Commented out as it seems the upstream has root-caused and
fixed the issue. I've checked the fix is in Coreutils 9.4 release
tarball:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2022-06/msg00079.html
-->
<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check" &lt; /dev/null</userinput></screen>
<para>Remove the temporary group:</para>