Re: textutils-2.0.22 feedback

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Nelson,

Thanks for all the testing!
The misc/head* test failures are not problems with
head itself, but almost certainly with the way the system
(or maybe the shell) deals with pipelines in subshells.
Which shell were you using?

If you would rerun the split-a and csplit tests like this

  cd tests/misc && env VERBOSE=yes make TESTS='csplit split-a'

it might help understand what's causing those failures.

Regards,
Jim

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Builds and installations of textutils-2.0.22 went flawlessly on nine
> local flavors of UNIX.  However, on Apple Darwin (MacOS X), I got some
> test failures:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory `/local/build/textutils-2.0.22/tests/misc'
> FAIL: split-a
> cmp: EOF on out
> 0a1
>> b
> FAIL: head-pos
>
> FAIL: head-c
> csplit.c:775: failed assertion `(linenum == 1 && last_line_to_save == 1)|| 
> linenum < last_line_to_save'
> cmp: EOF on out
> 0a1,3
>> 2
>> 0
>> 2
> FAIL: csplit
> ======================================
> 4 of 5 tests failed
> Please report to address@hidden
> ======================================
>
> I've therefore held off doing "make install" on that system.