e2fsprogs-1.43 make check failures

When building e2fsprogs we normally ask users to run 'make check'. For e2fsprogs-1.42.13 we had '153 tests succeeded, 0 tests failed', but for version 1.43, we have '62 tests succeeded, 265 tests failed'.

Many of the failures look like:

$ cat f_lpffile.failed
--- ../../tests/f_lpffile/expect.1 2009-08-13 01:39:58.000000000 +0000
+++ f_lpffile.1.log 2016-05-28 19:40:20.364025801 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+e2fsck 1.43 (17-May-2016)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
--- ../../tests/f_lpffile/expect.2 2009-08-13 01:39:58.000000000 +0000
+++ f_lpffile.2.log 2016-05-28 19:40:20.367025703 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+e2fsck 1.43 (17-May-2016)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity

In fact running:

[ /sources/e2fsprogs-1.43/build/tests ]$ grep ^+ *.failed|grep -v 1.43|grep -v @@|grep -v +++

gives no output. My conclusion is that all the tests actually pass, but the expected results need to be updated in the release tarball.

-- Bruce Dubbs
linuxfromscratch.org