Re: testsuite: fixed spurious failure in vala4.test (w.r.t. Solaris sh)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:06:08PM CEST:
> At Sunday 11 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Note that while heirloom and Solaris sh are similar, they aren't
> > identical, and I wouldn't want to invest work into fixing issues
> > that are in the former only, since it's definitely not a normal
> > development environment.
> You're right about this, but please consider that the heirloom sh 
> offers a simple way to get immediate feedback about portability
> errors w.r.t. Solaris sh, even for those contributors which don't have
> an access to a Solaris or OpenSolaris system.  Spurious errors
> regarding only heirloom-sh can hamper this feedback.  So I think it's
> better if we ensure that the test scripts can work smootly with 
> heirloom-sh too, and not just to reach an only-therotically wider
> portability, but to provide practical help to developers.

Well, if you invest work in this, that is fine with me.  Also, if
fixes are straight-forward and easily integrated.  What I'd like to
avoid is issues that add burden to maintenance and ongoing development.
As an extreme (and unrealistic) example, at this point I wouldn't want
to try to support an ancient shell without shell functions any more,
because that would cause extra work when writing new testsuite tests.

Cheers,
Ralf