Re: bizarre failures on NetBSD 9.3 x86_64

[Bruno Haible]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
> 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".

Interesting. I came up with a workaround, by modifying test-lib.sh, and it
is in fact already committed in git:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=patch.git;a=commitdiff;h=7623b2dc0d1837ecfd58f32efc78e35834deeb38

But for me, then I get a test failure, see attached log file.

The error messages "shift: can't shift that many" and
"test: ==: unexpected operator" indicate another shell problem.

Bruno

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