Re: [PATCH] tests/check-block: Do not run the iotests with old versions of bash

[Thomas Huth]

On 14/09/2020 11.19, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 12.09.20 14:14, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> macOS is shipped with a very old version of the bash (3.2), which
>> is currently not suitable for running the iotests anymore. Add
>> a check to skip the iotests in this case - if someone still wants
>> to run the iotests on macOS, they can install a newer version from
>> homebrew, for example.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  tests/check-block.sh | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tests/check-block.sh b/tests/check-block.sh
>> index 8e29c868e5..bfe1630c1e 100755
>> --- a/tests/check-block.sh
>> +++ b/tests/check-block.sh
>> @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ if ! command -v bash >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
>>      exit 0
>>  fi
>>  
>> +if bash --version | grep 'GNU bash, version [123]' > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> 
> grep -q instead of the redirections, perhaps?
> 
> But more importantly, I think this needs a LANG=C prefix.  (If I expand
> the rejected major versions to [12345], it doesn’t skip without a
> prefix, because the string reads “GNU bash, Version 5...” here in
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8.)

Ouch, ok. But actually, I'm not quite sure anymore whether the patch is
really required. I ran into the "readlink -f" problem and thought that
it occurred due to the ancient version of bash on macOS, but as a I now
know, readlink is a separate program and not a bash built-in, so it's a
different issue... thus let's skip this patch here for now until we hit
a real issue with bash again.

 Thomas