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without this patch.</para>
</note>
+ <!-- this has been fixed in upstream gnulib, when a new version of
+ coreutils is released, please check #4055 to see if the change has been
+ picked up in this package -->
+ <para>Suppress a test which on some machines can loop forever.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/test.lock/s/^/#/' gnulib-tests/gnulib.mk</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \