Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers

2013-04-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Paul, as a convenience feature when typing negative offsets, foo:-n and foo=-n can be entered as foo::n and foo==n respectively. I dislike this. Must be my preference for Python's `one way to do it' over Perl's `there must still be one more way we haven't added yet'. :-) `-' doesn't need

Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers

2013-04-18 Thread David Levine
Ralph wrote: Hi Paul, as a convenience feature when typing negative offsets, foo:-n and foo=-n can be entered as foo::n and foo==n respectively. I dislike this. Must be my preference for Python's `one way to do it' over Perl's `there must still be one more way we haven't added yet'.

Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers

2013-04-18 Thread Ken Hornstein
is make check the only way to invoke the tests? i couldn't see an easy way to invoke just one. As David pointed out, a lot of the tests can be invoked directly, but you _can_ use make to invoke just one test. Just set the TESTS argument as part of make check. Well, you probably want to run the

Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers

2013-04-18 Thread Paul Fox
ken wrote: % make check TESTS=test/inc/test-inc-scanout test/cleanup ah, good. two pastes -- the first is the normal output of running the test: http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/z/pb1366291618.txt the second is the result of adding set -x exec 2/tmp/test-slocal.out to the top of

Re: [Nmh-workers] test-slocal

2013-04-18 Thread Paul Fox
david wrote: Paul F. wrote: so it looks to me like this command: /home/pgf/src/pdom/nmh/nmh.git/test/testdir/inst/usr/local/nmh.git/lib/sl ocal -maildelivery /home/pgf/src/pdom/nmh/nmh.git/test/testdir/Mail/maildeliv ery should have produced the .actual file, but

Re: [Nmh-workers] test-slocal

2013-04-18 Thread David Levine
Paul wrote: WARNING: /home/pgf/src/pdom/nmh/nmh.git/test/testdir/Mail/maildelivery has bad ownership/modes (su=0,uid=1000,owner=1000,mode=0100664) (delivering to standard mail spool) So you have a umask of 0002? I'll add this to the test, that should fix it: @@ -78,0 +79 @@ EOF +chmod go-w

Re: [Nmh-workers] test-slocal

2013-04-18 Thread Paul Fox
david wrote: Paul wrote: WARNING: /home/pgf/src/pdom/nmh/nmh.git/test/testdir/Mail/maildelivery has bad ownership/modes (su=0,uid=1000,owner=1000,mode=0100664) (delivering to standard mail spool) So you have a umask of 0002? yes. I'll add this to the test, that should fix

Re: [Nmh-workers] test-slocal

2013-04-18 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2013-04-18, at 8:16 AM, David Levine wrote: So you have a umask of 0002? I'll add this to the test, that should fix it: Why not set an explicit umask instead? ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org

Re: [Nmh-workers] test-slocal

2013-04-18 Thread David Levine
Lyndon wrote: On 2013-04-18, at 8:16 AM, David Levine wrote: So you have a umask of 0002? I'll add this to the test, that should fix it: Why not set an explicit umask instead? I prefer that the test suite not hide other situations where it also might matter. Though in this case, I