Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:09:34PM CET: I have rebased my private branch against master, and also amended the patch a bit (to deal with the test `cscope.test', which used a `$MAKE 2stderr' redirection that I missed). The updated patch is attached.

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-12-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
I have rebased my private branch against master, and also amended the patch a bit (to deal with the test `cscope.test', which used a `$MAKE 2stderr' redirection that I missed). The updated patch is attached. Regards, Stefano From e9666da90920c1373bfe6f9cbf8aa1e4e50c2b8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-11-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Stefano Lattarini wrote: Aaargh! There is a bug (another), with heirloom-sh this time. Apparently, shell traces are not enabled/disabled in run_command() the way they should. Please do not apply the patch until I'll had figured out and fixed the problem (I've no time right now, maybe

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-11-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Aaargh! There is a bug (another), with heirloom-sh this time. Apparently, shell traces are not enabled/disabled in run_command() the way they should. Please do not apply the patch until I'll had figured out and fixed the problem (I've no time right now, maybe tomorrow I can do something).

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. The final version of the patch is attached. Sorry for the long delay, but being new to FreeeBSD I messed up things more than one time while runnning tests on that system. The patched testsuite runs succesfully on Debian/Linux with either bash, zsh 3 or zsh 4. With

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ralf. A new version of the patch is attached. It's still not definitive, but I hope most things are settled by now. And, of course, they're not. Sigh. With FreeBSD-7.2 /bin/sh, the construct: if eval $run_evald_cmd; then

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:24:38PM CEST: At Tuesday 13 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: First off, I think that run_command really should Exit when the command does not produce the intended status. It should not be necessary to do run_command -e

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
I attached a new version of the patch. Please note that it still doesn't address the remarks and objections made in the present mail. At Tuesday 13 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Stefano, I understand. But what about instead susbstituting everywhere

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 03:04:59PM CEST: At Saturday 10 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I didn't make myself clear enough, sorry. What I meant was that we shouldn't change uses of $AUTOMAKE with redirections to 'run_command $AUTOMAKE' when we

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: ... Hmm, I'm a bit leery of making things read-only, but making sure the files contain a generated by ... line near the top seems a good idea. In truth, I don't find that much useful in order to prevent unintentional editing: I have ended up too many times modifying

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jim, Stefano, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 01:41:25PM CEST: Stefano Lattarini wrote: ... Hmm, I'm a bit leery of making things read-only, but making sure the files contain a generated by ... line near the top seems a good idea. In truth, I don't find that much useful

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-10 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Saturday 10 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 03:42:52AM CEST: [CUT] Hmm, I see a few inconsistencies cropping up here. First, we already have AUTOMAKE_run. It has slightly different syntax. With your

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 03:42:52AM CEST: At Friday 09 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I'd shorten this to: Use run_command throughout. I'd prefer to keep it a bit more verbose. I settled for this: Use new subroutine run_command instead of hand-crafted

Re: testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-10-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:01:51PM CEST: The master branch of the automake Git repository has advanced again since I submitted the latest version of my patch. In particular, a new test cases has been added, which required some editing to work smoothly