Re: bizarre failures on NetBSD 9.3 x86_64

[Dennis Clarke]

On 5/9/23 23:36, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports, suggestions, general 
discussion for GNU patch. wrote:
> On 5/9/23 11:00, Bruno Haible wrote:
>  > Dennis Clarke wrote:
>  >> Seems to be a problem where a trivial Bourne shell for the user is not
>  >> good enough?
>  >
>  > What if you install GNU bash:
>  >

After all that disaster I had a thought : what about that silly and
poorly documented env var CONFIG_SHELL ?

bash-5.1$ echo $CONFIG_SHELL
/usr/pkg/bin/bash
bash-5.1$

Guess what ?

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU patch 2.7.6
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 44
# PASS:  42
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 2
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================

Gotta love the need for GNU bash for this to work. Makes no sense at all
for "patch".




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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
Four decades in production systems.