Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 12:04:11AM CEST:
> At Sunday 06 September 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > info Autoconf "File Descriptors"
> >
> > describes this issue and a possible workaround.  Wanna give it a
> > try?
> >
> Well, in fact I thought of a possible workaround (by means of a proper
> new shell function defined in `tests/defs.in', and loosely inspired to
> AUTOMAKE_run()), but it would inevitably involve modifying the failing
> test scripts, and probably extending the file `tests/README' to explain
> how to do stderr redirection avoiding the described zsh bug.
> if you think that it's worth having support for zsh4 in the automake
> testsuite, I can give it a try, 

Yes, that sounds like a good idea.  It is ok to modify existing tests,
as long as they still test what they used to before.

Thanks,
Ralf