With an uninitialized variable 'fail', the unquoted use like
test $fail = 1
lead to the shell error
"unary operator expected".
The uninitialized 'fail' variable was a side effect of
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=
e91c0d4f9
which was pulled into coreutils-v8.26 with
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=
ef9650170
Coreutils test code relied and relies on 'fail' to be initialized,
so initialize that variable here.
* tests/local.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Initialize fail=0.
abs_top_srcdir='$(abs_top_srcdir)' \
abs_srcdir='$(abs_srcdir)' \
built_programs='$(built_programs) $(single_binary_progs)' \
+ fail=0 \
host_os=$(host_os) \
host_triplet='$(host_triplet)' \
srcdir='$(srcdir)' \