Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

[Stefano Lattarini]

At Wednesday 09 September 2009, Ralf Wildenhues 
<address@hidden> wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 12:04:11AM CEST:
> >
> > [CUT]
> >
> > 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
Ok, done in the attached patch.  The automake testsuite still runs
correctly on my system (debian testing/unstable), with all of `bash', 
`dash', and `zsh4 --no-function-argzero'.

However, the tests `automake.test' and `instspc.test' fail with ksh 
version "sh (AT&T Research) 93t+ 2009-05-01"

I must say that these tests fail to work with ksh also in in the
`origin/master' branch, so at least this is not a regression.
Probably I will investigate these failures when I'll have time.

Regards,
    Stefano

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