Re: STatus of MPS branch

[Gerd Möllmann]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Gerd,
>
>>> Could you please instrument tramp-tests.el with the attached patch. Then
>>> rerun the tests with
>>>
>>> # make -C test tramp-tests.log
>>>
>>> and show the log file.
>>
>> Danke, Michael. Please find attached
>
> Well, this is weird. "Hallo 1" shows the invocation of
> '(insert-directory tmp-name1 nil)', which should just return the file
> name. In my case, it is
>
> Hallo 1
> /mock:gandalf:/tmp/tramp-test9LSbRf
>
>
> But your log shows the long listing
>
> Hallo 1
>   drwxr-xr-x 3 gerd staff 96 Apr 20 18:40 
> /mock:Pro.fritz.box:/var/folders/1d/k_6t25f94sl83szqbf8gpkrh0000gn/T/tramp-testT6CzoZ
>
>
> Hmm, we must write more traces. Could you, pls, apply the extended
> patch?. Running the test could be restricted to the test case in
> question via
>
> # make -C test tramp-tests.log SELECTOR=tramp-test17-insert-directory
>
> Let's see what tramp-tests.log tells us.

Thanks. Before I do that, could this be caused by macOS' ls vs. gls?

  % gls --version
  ls (GNU coreutils) 9.5

while ls is the macOS one (probably from FreeBSD, but the man page
doesn't say so).