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Re: wordexp test failure
- To: Geoff Clare <gwc at unisoft dot com>
- Subject: Re: wordexp test failure
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 06 Mar 2000 15:03:42 +0100
- Cc: libc-alpha Mailinglist <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <200003061326.NAA29976@squonk.unisoft.com>
>>>>> Geoff Clare writes:
Geoff> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote, on Fri 25 Feb 2000:
>>
>> The current glibc 2.2 version from CVS fails make check for wordexp.
>>
>> The failing test is:
>> Test 131 (${var#~root}x): FAILED
>> Test words: <${var#~root}x>, need retval 0, wordc 1
>> Got retval 0, wordc 1: </home/ajx>
>>
>> Geoff, this is one of the testcase you've contributed recently. Do
>> you now what's broken?
Geoff> I was on vacation last week, so I didn't get your mail until today.
Geoff> This test isn't one of the ones I added. There are only 127 tests in the
Geoff> version of wordexp-test.c that I have (i.e. the 2.1.2 version plus my patch).
There were some added in 1999 to the 2.2 version - but not to 2.1. We
don't add all new testcases to 2.1.x - some are only added to the
development version of 2.2.
Geoff> Without seeing the code for the test, it's hard to guess what might be
Geoff> wrong. If you can send me the latest wordexp-test.c I'll investigate.
I'll send them separatly.
Thanks,
Andreas
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