This test relies on 'xargs' being available in $PATH, which is not the case when we build the initial Findutils doing bootstrapping. Reported at . --- findutils-4.6.0/find/testsuite/sv-34976-execdir-fd-leak.sh 2015-12-31 19:37:59.401526288 +0100 +++ findutils-4.6.0/find/testsuite/sv-34976-execdir-fd-leak.sh 2015-12-31 19:38:36.061770693 +0100 @@ -50,13 +50,14 @@ die() { # Create test files, each 98 in the directories ".", "one" and "two". make_test_data() { d="$1" + xargs="`cd ../../xargs; pwd -P`/xargs" ( cd "$1" || exit 1 mkdir one two || exit 1 for i in ${three_to_hundred} ; do printf "./%03d one/%03d two/%03d " $i $i $i done \ - | xargs touch || exit 1 + | "$xargs" touch || exit 1 ) \ || die "failed to set up the test in ${outdir}" }