Exempt lines with '$' or '=', since those are prone to improper
conversion. Run this:
git grep -l "\`[^']*'" tests \
|xargs perl -pi -e '/[=\$]/ and next;s/\`([^'\''"]*?'\'')/'\''$1/g'
* tests/init.sh: Relax check for diff -u support.
Rather than checking for GNU diff via --version, simply check
for support for -u itself. Useful at least on OpenBSD 4.9.
* tests/init.sh (warn_): Use "sed 1q" in place of "head -1".
The latter is officially obsolete but more portable than "head -n1".
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
* tests/init.cfg (skip_test_): Remove function.
Use skip_ in place of skip_test_ everywhere else.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_skip_): Remove rule.
* tests/**: Use skip_, not skip_test_, everywhere.
* tests/init.sh (warn_): Use printf, not echo. The latter would
misbehave when given strings containing a backslash or starting
with e.g., -n. James Youngman suggested setting IFS.
Running "make check" normally prints a diagnostic to the outermost
stderr (usually a tty) to explain why a test is skipped. It did this
by redirecting FD 9 to stderr (via "exec 9>&2") before invoking the
shell script. Shell scripts write skip-explanation to FD 9 via
init.sh's skip_ function. However, with ksh and HP-UX's /bin/sh,
the effects of "exec 9>&2" are canceled upon fork-and-exec, so we
would get a "Bad file number" diagnostic and no skip explanation on
those systems.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Redirect more portably, via
"$(SHELL) 9>&2", rather than the prior "exec 9>&2; $(SHELL) ..."
Actually, we use "shell_or_perl_ 9>&2", to make this effective
also for the perl-based tests.
* tests/init.sh (stderr_fileno_): Update the advice in comments.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/22488
for lots of discussion. Stefano Lattarini suggested the solution
of putting "9>&2" after the command. Reported by Bruno Haible.
skip_test_ emits its diagnostic both to FD 9 (tty), and to
FD 2 (usually the log file), whereas init.sh's skip_ emits
only to FD 9. Without that, the log is slightly less useful.
* tests/cp/fiemap-2: Use skip_test_, not skip_.
* tests/cp/fiemap-perf: Likewise.
* tests/du/bigtime: Likewise.
* tests/du/files0-from-dir: Likewise.
* tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing: Likewise.
* tests/init.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem: Likewise.
* tests/misc/stat-nanoseconds: Likewise.
* tests/mv/i-3: Likewise.
* tests/mv/sticky-to-xpart: Likewise.
* tests/split/filter: Likewise.
Prompted by a report from Pádraig Brady.
* gnulib: Update to latest, to address http://debbugs.gnu.org/8230.
When built on Solaris 9 and run on Solaris 10, touch would segfault.
Reported by Ben Walton.
* bootstrap: Update from gnulib.
* tests/init.sh: Likewise.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.
* tests/init.sh (setup_): Initialize fail=0 before invoking mktempd_.
Ensure that IFS is defined initially.
(mktempd_): Remove fail=0 initialization; no longer needed.
because dash-0.5.6-2.fc14.x86_64 would also be disqualified.
This reverts part of yesterday's commit 6c058b2d, "tests: avoid
failure due to bug in FreeBSD 8.1's /bin/sh". Note that the offending
aspect of those shells is not officially a bug, since "local" is not
specified by POSIX. However, it is very unintuitive that prepending
"local" to an existing, standards-compliant assignment would evoke
such a fundamental change in semantics.
* tests/init.sh: Remove snippet requiring sane "local" support.
Upstream dash bug report:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/419
* tests/init.sh: Arrange not to accept FreeBSD 8.1's /bin/sh, since
it fails this test: /bin/sh -c 'f(){ local s=$IFS; test -n "$s"; }; f'
* tests/init.cfg (sanitize_path_): Stop-gap measure to work around
a bug in FreeBSD 8.1's /bin/sh. We'll un-do this change once all
300+ tests use init.sh.
