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| author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2012-07-24 22:56:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2012-07-24 22:56:01 +0200 |
| commit | fd2524171194ab00e7f7cad768bd6753a38ecab9 (patch) | |
| tree | cf2c60f415d498bc6f02b7556937fc274bcd4785 | |
| parent | 15fa9fba94f55e8aa5508d23d23413d04a2ffe79 (diff) | |
| download | automake-fd2524171194ab00e7f7cad768bd6753a38ecab9.tar.gz | |
tests: avoid non-textual output in a '.log' file
* t/dist-formats.tap: Here. Otherwise, some inferior awk implementations,
like OpenIndiana /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, could be confused and cause spurious
errors in the testsuite harness.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| -rwxr-xr-x | t/dist-formats.tap | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/t/dist-formats.tap b/t/dist-formats.tap index 84f4edab8..85021d38c 100755 --- a/t/dist-formats.tap +++ b/t/dist-formats.tap @@ -88,9 +88,16 @@ have_compressor () return 1 ;; *) + case $1 in + # Do not use --version, or older versions bzip2 would try to + # compress stdin. This would cause binary output in the test + # logs, with potential breakage of our testsuite harness. + bzip2) o=--help;; + *) o=--version;; + esac # Redirect to stderr to avoid polluting the output, in case this # function is used in a command substitution (as it is, below). - if $1 --version </dev/null >&2; then + if $1 $o </dev/null >&2; then return 0 else return 1 |