Re: make check calls zgrep from zutils

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Paul, thanks for the quick answer.

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I can't reproduce either problem when building gzip 1.5
> on Fedora 17 x86-64.  "less" isn't blocked, and the help-version
> test works even if I prepend a bogus "zcmp" to my PATH.

I have tried on three very different machines (Slackware 13.37 x86-64, 
Slackware 12 x86-32, and a "linux from scratch" style x86-32). On all 
three of them "less" blocks. To exit "less" I have to type "q+ENTER". On 
the Slackware 12 it blocks even on an xterm ("Linux Console" from KDE).

About the "'make check' wrongly invokes programs from zutils installed 
in /usr/local/bin/" part, I have verified that:

1) with zutils installed in /usr/bin/ the test passes.

2) with a bogus zcmp alone in /usr/local/bin/ the test passes.

3) with zutils installed in /usr/local/bin/ the test fails.

The problem seems to be "make check" invoking /usr/local/bin/zdiff 
through gzip's zcmp and /usr/local/bin/zgrep through gzip's z[ef]grep.

I attach the full test-suite.log compressed for reference. Here are the 
(IMO) relevant parts:

# TOTAL: 12
# PASS:  11
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

.. contents:: :depth: 2

FAIL: help-version
[...]
+ echo '*** zegrep: bad exit status `0'\'' (expected 2),'
*** zegrep: bad exit status `0' (expected 2),
+ echo '  with --help or --version output redirected to /dev/full'
  with --help or --version output redirected to /dev/full
[...]
+ echo '*** zfgrep: bad exit status `0'\'' (expected 2),'
*** zfgrep: bad exit status `0' (expected 2),
+ echo '  with --help or --version output redirected to /dev/full'
  with --help or --version output redirected to /dev/full
[...]
zdiff: unrecognized option '--__cmp'
Try 'zdiff --help' for more information.
+ echo FAIL: zcmp
FAIL: zcmp


Best regards,
Antonio.

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