bug#10441: The testsuite assumes that ln -s really creates a symlink

[Peter Rosin]

Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-08 13:56:
> On 01/05/2012 11:13 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
> Hi Peter, thanks for the report.
> 
>> "ln -s" on MSYS does not create a symlink, instead it makes a
>> regular copy.  Lots of test cases (on master) FAIL due to this.
>>
>> "test -h foo" will simply not return success on MSYS, ever.
>>
>> Affected tests (that I have noticed):
>> add-missing.tap (lots of failing test cases)
>> copy.test
>>
> The attached patch should take care of the problem.  Tested using
> this script in PATH as the `ln' program:
> 
>   #!/bin/bash
>   declare -a args=()
>   for i in "$@"; do
>     test x"$i" = x"-s" && continue
>     args=("address@hidden" "$i")
>   done
>   exec /bin/ln "address@hidden"
> 
> I will push after your ACK or in 48 hours, whichever comes first.

add-missing.tap: 351 PASS, 50 skip
copy.test: PASS

Thanks!

Cheers,
Peter