Re: How do I run tests under Valgrind?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:13:09PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> On 09/21/2012 09:58 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> >> I was able to reproduce the problem on all my machines, and I consider
> >> this very disturbing.  However, I was successfully able to corner the
> >> issue. I have an overtly long $PATH that's not getting split properly
> >> by `IFS=:` in one corner case -- in other words, this shell script
> >> fails to execute properly when called with `--tee` (just set a really
> >> long $PATH and try):
> > 
> > Oops.  Looks like it has nothing to do with an overtly long $PATH.  It
> > has something to do with $SHELL being zsh though, because other shells
> > work.  Looking deeper into this.
> > 
> Zsh doesn't do word-splitting by default on variable expansions:
> 
>     $ zsh -c 'v="1 2 3"; for x in $v; do echo "$x"; done'
>     1 2 3
> 
> unless you set the SH_WORD_SPLIT option, or put Zsh in Bourne-compatibility
> mode somehow:

Oh. It sounds like setting $SHELL to zsh is really the problem, then. If
it is not Bourne-compatible when called as "zsh", then it really should
be called in a way that turns on compatibility mode (bash will do this
when called as "sh", but you can also do it with "bash --posix").

-Peff