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Re: bash tests failing when compiled with --enable-xpg-echo-default=yes
From: |
Vladimir Marek |
Subject: |
Re: bash tests failing when compiled with --enable-xpg-echo-default=yes |
Date: |
Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:41:44 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.22.1-rc1 (2013-10-16) |
> >>> And second patch we use because of xpg-echo. Would it have sense to have
> >>> it included, or maybe stop the tests completely instead?
> >>
> >> You could just have turned off the xpg_echo option instead of going through
> >> a convoluted test (which just emulates `shopt -q') to determine whether or
> >> not it's on, but it does need to be off.
> >
> > Understood. I'm thinking about it this way - we have nonstandard shell
> > for historic reasons. Many tests from the test suite still works fine. I
> > want to test as much as possible of the shell Solaris people will be
> > using. If I just disable xpg_echo, I won't be testing that. The pain of
> > maintaining the tests is price for that.
>
> Sure, I understand that, and I will make reasonable changes to accommodate
> echo/echo -E. However, you didn't do that here. I'm ok with making the
> change to just turn off xpg_echo in this file.
Your call, I have no problem with that.
Thanks!
--
Vlad
Re: bash tests failing when compiled with --enable-xpg-echo-default=yes, Chet Ramey, 2016/12/03