Re: bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Tuesday 14 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> [adding automake-patches on CC:]
> 
> Reference to original thread(s), mostly duplicated:
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-06/msg00051.html>
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-06/msg00002.html>
> 
> Reference to last relevant message there:
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-06/msg00018.html>
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-06/msg00082.html>
>  
> On Tuesday 14 June 2011, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 06/13/2011 04:29 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > > If this work, then using a bare `>&2' *at the end of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT* 
> > > and
> > 
> > You meant a bare `9>&2',
> >
> Yes, sorry.
> 
> > but yes that does seem to be workable for what we want!
> > 
> > > *without a following semicolon* might give a portable workaround, as if 
> > > I'm
> > > not mistaken POSIX mandates that redirections can be specified anywere on
> > > the command line, and are to be evaluated from left to right.
> > 
> > Yes, all shells support these as equivalent:
> > 
> > 9>&2 sh k
> > sh k 9>&2
> > 
> > > 
> > > UPDATE: Yes, it seems to work.  I'll add a testcase to the 'maint' branch 
> > > in
> > > case you and Jim decide to go with this solution (and you can confirm 
> > > that it
> > > really works).
> > 
> > Cool!  Definitely worth documenting in the automake manual, as owner of
> > TESTS_ENVIRONMENT and as a client of init.sh functionality, as well as
> > your proposed automake testcase addition to ensure we don't break it.
> > 
>  
> I'll then push the attached patch to automake master soonish (by tomorrow
> or so) if there is no objection by then.
> 
I've pushed the patch now.

Regards,
  Stefano