Re: [PATCH] Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.

[Stefano Lattarini]

At Sunday 06 June 2010, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> > The involved test scripts and the modifications done to them are
> > simple enough that no portability problem involving the `errexit'
> > flag should have been introduced.
> 
> Not quite right in this case.  OpenBSD sh fails ext.test with your
> patch, see my recent post on autoconf-patches which should improve
> the autoconf.texi description of this issue.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind in the future.

Anyway, a false positive is not such a big problem (even if it's 
definitely annoying); I'm more concerned about the possibility to 
introduce false negatives with my changes.  Luckily, your careful 
reviews can really help here.

Regards,
     Stefano