From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Chris Cowan" <chris.o.cowan@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hacks for AIX
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:25:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3am9sn2p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5855afd30807161057v54ed4112jaea3bc07cebf44d4@mail.gmail.com> (Chris Cowan's message of "Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:57:43 -0500")
"Chris Cowan" <chris.o.cowan@gmail.com> writes:
> * /usr/bin/grep - behaves badly in t7002. I believe it is test
> 12 and related to the -n -w -e combination of options.
Perhaps your version of AIX needs to...
$ make NO_EXTERNAL_GREP=UnfortunatelyYesOnThisAIX
> * /usr/bin/diff - has problems with -u and -U.
> I saw the $GIT_CMP_TEST env var, but this is
> not used everywhere within the test scripts above.
> In some cases, the tests could have been made more portable by using a
> plain "diff" rather than "diff -u", for example.
A patch to the testsuite to replace use of "diff" and "diff -u" that test
the actual output matches expected output with "test_cmp" would be
appreciated.
> * /usr/bin/patch - really old version, doesn't do well with some
> diff formats. I avoid using it.
t4109 seems to use patch to produce expected output for the tests; we
should ship a precomputed expected results. Do you know of any other
places "patch" is used?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-16 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-16 17:57 Hacks for AIX Chris Cowan
2008-07-16 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-18 23:14 ` Brandon Casey
2008-07-20 8:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 15:39 ` Brandon Casey
2008-07-22 21:42 ` Brandon Casey
2008-07-16 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
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