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bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:46:41 +0200 |
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hello Jim.
...
> Wouldn't it be simpler, and potentially more correct, to use simply:
>
> warn_ () { eval 'echo "$@" 1>&'"$stderr_fileno_"; }
>
> With your new implementation, I see this on Debian with bash and dash:
>
> $ stderr_fileno_=2; warn_ () { eval 'echo "'"$@"'" 1>&'"$stderr_fileno_"; }
> $ $ warn_ '$HOME'
> /home/stefano
>
> which is not intended behaviour IMHO.
Thanks again. Here's what I've just pushed.
I'll do the same for gnulib shortly.
>From 6fb9aeedd1b858a61d5cbf7f15782adf29ff733a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:07:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] init.sh: accommodate shells for which 1>&$stderr_fileno_
fails
* tests/init.sh (warn_): Use eval to work around a bug in some shells,
like those of Solaris 10 and HP-UX 11.11.
Improved by Stefano Lattarini.
---
tests/init.sh | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tests/init.sh b/tests/init.sh
index 14f2e26..25850af 100644
--- a/tests/init.sh
+++ b/tests/init.sh
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Exit () { set +e; (exit $1); exit $1; }
# the reason for skip/failure to console, rather than to the .log files.
: ${stderr_fileno_=2}
-warn_ () { echo "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_; }
+warn_ () { eval 'echo "$@" 1>&'"$stderr_fileno_"; }
fail_ () { warn_ "$ME_: failed test: $@"; Exit 1; }
skip_ () { warn_ "$ME_: skipped test: $@"; Exit 77; }
framework_failure_ () { warn_ "$ME_: set-up failure: $@"; Exit 99; }
--
1.7.6.rc0.293.g40857
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Bruno Haible, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Pádraig Brady, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Jim Meyering, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Bruno Haible, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Jim Meyering, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Eric Blake, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Jim Meyering, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Eric Blake, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Jim Meyering, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Bruno Haible, 2011/06/13
- bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed, Jim Meyering, 2011/06/13