Re: Why change posix/globtest.sh?

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 05:43:47AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >>>>> H J Lu writes:
> 
> HJ> On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 07:36:02PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> >> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> >  ${elf_objpfx}${rtld_installed_name} --library-path ${library_path} \
> >> >  ${common_objpfx}posix/globtest -q -t "$testdir" "~"$USER |
> >> >  sort > $testout
> >> > -eval echo ~$USER | cmp - $testout || result=1
> >> > +# Some shell incorrectly(?) convert ~/ into // if ~ expands to /.
> >> > +if test ~/ = //; then
> >> > +    echo / | cmp - $testout || result=1
> >> > +else
> >> > +    echo ~/ | cmp - $testout || result=1
> >> > +fi
> >> > 
> >> > UIlrich, I believe you applied the patch at the wrong place. Could
> >> > you please fix it?
> >> 
> >> Why should this be wrong?  Some shells expand ~/ for $HOME == / to //.
> >> We expect / and therefore we have to have a special test.
> >> 
> 
> HJ> This is the patch for glibc 2.1. Please read PR libc/1690 and glibc
> HJ> 2.2. I didn't figure it out until I read PR libc/1690 and glibc 2.2.
> 
> You're right - I've fixed and commited this for 2.2 now.

My patch is for glibc 2.1. Why did you change 2.2?


H.J.