Re: failure in "colorful tests"

[Bob Proulx]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> +case $TERM in
> +dumb) exit 77;;
> +esac
> ...
> Thanks!  Do we need to guard against other TERM settings, too?

Hmm...  I was thinking more along the lines of this patch instead.  I
don't think the test should be skipped.  I think it should be made
independent of the invoking user's TERM.  Because the test is
self-contained it does not depend upon the user's TERM setting.

In fact I think it is required because ansi escape sequences were
coded into the script.  That means if this is run on a non-ansi
terminal it would fail.

[This dependence upon TERM but the assumption of ansi escape sequences
in the test may account for tput "failures" on non-ansi terminals that
you reported during development. (shrug)  Not sure but it seems
plausible to me.]

Bob


diff --git a/tests/color.test b/tests/color.test
index d30d1e0..ed88c10 100755
--- a/tests/color.test
+++ b/tests/color.test
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 
 # Test Automake TESTS color output.
 
+TERM=ansi
+export TERM
+
 . ./defs || exit 1
 
 set -e