A question.

[Vijaya V. Saradhi]

Dear Sir,
     My name is vijaya saradhi. I am a graduate student at IIT Kanpur. I 
am trying to install higher versions of parted library on my computer 
which has default fedora core 5 installation: parted-1.7.1-15.fc5. For 
this I have downloaded parted-1.8.7 from the gnu website and trying to 
following the installation instructions. I did ./configure and make 
successfully.

When trying to do "make check", I am getting the following output:

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make  check-TESTS
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/saradhi/softwares/parted-1.8.7/tests'
*   ok 1: create the test file
*   ok 2: run parted -s FILE mklabel msdos
*   ok 3: expect no output
*   ok 4: erase the left-over label
*   ok 5: run parted mklabel (without -s) on a blank disk
*   ok 6: create expected output file
*   ok 7: check its "interactive" output
*   ok 8: create interactive input
*   ok 9: rerun that same command, but now with a preexisting label
*   ok 10: normalize the actual output
*   ok 11: create expected output file
* FAIL 12: check its output -- slightly different here, due to prompts
        $compare out exp
* failed 1 among 12 test(s)
FAIL: t0000-basic.sh
*   ok 1: create a file too small to hold a fat32 file system
*   ok 2: label the test disk
*   ok 3: expect no output
*   ok 4: try/fail to create a file system in too small a space
*   ok 5: create expected output file
*   ok 6: check for expected failure diagnostic
*   ok 7: clean up, preparing for next test
*   ok 8: create a file large enough to hold a fat32 file system
*   ok 9: label the test disk
*   ok 10: expect no output
*   ok 11: create an msdos file system
*   ok 12: expect no output
* passed all 12 test(s)
PASS: t1000-mkpartfs.sh
*   ok 1: create a file large enough to hold a fat32 file system
*   ok 2: label the test disk
*   ok 3: expect no output
*   ok 4: create an partition
*   ok 5: create an msdos file system
*   ok 6: expect no output
* passed all 6 test(s)
PASS: t2000-mkfs.sh
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1 of 3 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
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make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/saradhi/softwares/parted-1.8.7/tests'
make: *** [check-am] Error 2
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How serious is this error? Now that I got this error, I haven't done the 
final step "make install". I request you to kindly let me know if this is 
a bug and suggest me whether I should go ahead and do make install.

thanking you,
sincerely,
vijaya saradhi.
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