Hello, Elbert Pol wrote: > >> diff: -: Invalid seek > >> FAIL: test-argp-2.sh > > > > Your 'diff' program can use some modernization. POSIX > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/diff.html > > goes into some length explaining why the input does not need to be seekable. > I use diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7
You've got something to investigate. Because GNU diff on Unix doesn't have this problem. > > This and the other test-u*-*printf* failures are likely the same. > > Probably because you don't have an iconv(). Should disappear after you > > install GNU libiconv. > > I installed iconv (GNU libiconv 1.10) Well, configure said that it still could not find the function: checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv Did you use the --with-libiconv-prefix option to configure? It should ensure that both the header file and the function in the library are found. Anyway, the other 4 types of failures (SIGFPE, canonicalize, gethostname, stat-time) are more important to investigate. Bruno