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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2009-11-22 00:22:42 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2009-11-22 00:22:42 +0000
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GNU Coreutils: Comment on test failures.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=18512
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
index 871508394433..e42e46d01022 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ perl ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional aclSupport acl;
 
-  # The check failed the last time we enabled it
+  # The tests are known broken on Cygwin
+  # (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/19025).
+  # For the rest, wait for upstream reply at:
+  # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/19024 .
   doCheck = false;
 
   meta = {