diff options
author | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-02-13 18:41:42 -0600 |
---|---|---|
committer | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-02-13 20:22:48 -0600 |
commit | 4392979e9d616aebd376f5aac69a08277b7820dc (patch) | |
tree | ab38c4284584fea78331329f3753ec99352b131a /HACKING | |
parent | 27057ea197f108ba657cc2f8bc4546de6c479946 (diff) | |
download | groff-git-4392979e9d616aebd376f5aac69a08277b7820dc.tar.gz |
[tmac]: Work around macOS od (mis-)behavior.
* tmac/tests/latin2_works.sh:
* tmac/tests/latin5_works.sh:
* tmac/tests/latin9_works.sh: Port to work around macOS's apparently
POSIX non-conforming 'od' command. Use single-byte octal output
format instead of "character", and update test expectations
accordingly. Apparently gratuitously, macOS also puts more spaces
after the octal address field when using this output format.
* HACKING: Document, and elaborate upon, this problem.
Also distinguish identical test failure diagnostics.
ANNOUNCE: Remove caveat about automated test failures on macOS.
Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
-rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -92,6 +92,19 @@ Here are some portability notes on writing automated tests. might need to be weakened to the following on macOS. grep -Eqx '0000000 +A +\\b +B +\\b +C D +\\n *' +* The "od" command on macOS does not respect the environment variable + assignment "LC_ALL=C" when processing byte values 127<x<256 decimal + and using the "character" output format (option "-t c"). An + alternative output must be used, like bytewise octal (option "-t o1"). + (macOS od may be non-conforming here, despite the claim of its man + page. POSIX Issue 4 od's description says "The type specifier + character c specifies that bytes will be interpreted as characters + specified by the current setting of the LC_CTYPE locale category. ... + Other non-printable characters will be written as one three-digit + octal number for each byte in the character." (p. 538) The language + in Issue 7 (2018) appears unchanged. + https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/od.html ) + * macOS sed requires semicolons after commands even if they are followed immediately by a closing brace. |