I noticed that the autobuilder failed only on solaris: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2976390/log/raw
At first, I misdiagnosed it as a failure in another test (but that was merely a skip), committed the following and immediately reverted it. From 1c38788efee7ca9afb6d3a857c95dfd1b5f2d03b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:49:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: test-vc-list-files-git.sh: skip if git is not available The real failure was here: FAIL: test-localeconv (exit: 262) ================================= test-localeconv.c:41: assertion failed which corresponds to this line: $ cat -n tests/test-localeconv.c|grep -B6 41 35 { 36 struct lconv *l = localeconv (); 37 38 ASSERT (STREQ (l->decimal_point, ".")); 39 ASSERT (STREQ (l->thousands_sep, "")); 40 #if !defined __FreeBSD__ 41 ASSERT (STREQ (l->grouping, "")); Since that same test passes just fine on a Solaris 10 system to which I have access, I'm going to ignore it for now.