Re: use 'jot' if available

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> thanks for the bug report; will address in a separate message.  For now:
> 
> * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:43:00AM CEST:
>> Also, I wonder if it is worth checking for bsd''s 'jot' utility in these
>> tests that use seq?
> 
> That sounds like a good idea to me.  I didn't know jot.
> I'm pushing this.
> 


Hi Ralf,

I just had a quick look at a few systems, and unfortunately, on IRIX,
/usr/sbin/jot exists and is a graphical text editor. It also does not
exit with a non-zero exit code on failure, so e.g. DISPLAY=no_display;
export DISPLAY in the tests won't help to catch it.

Ugh.

Peter
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