Apparently some or all travis build servers has a bit older coreutils
version. The coreutils v8.13 added a feature to readlink that allows
user to specify multiple arguments. Earlier versions gave exactly the
type of error travis_script log has.
+readlink: extra operand `rename_aa/sublink.2'
+Try `readlink --help' for more information.
The commit
0f85e0535bd4e6d19fadca182e4d57660b6bb57b introduced the travis
readlink issue, and has caused failures for 8 days in row (builds 192 -
213).
Reference: https://travis-ci.org/karelzak/util-linux/builds
Reviewed-by: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
ln -s rename/aa $i
done
$TS_CMD_RENAME -s -v a x rename_a{a,b}/sublink.? >> $TS_OUTPUT 2>&1
-readlink rename_a{a,b}/sublink.? >> $TS_OUTPUT 2>&1
+for i in rename_a{a,b}/sublink.?; do
+ readlink $i >> $TS_OUTPUT 2>&1
+done
rm -rf rename_a{a,b}