Subject: Re: bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:01:37 +0100

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
...
>> Then I think you're right.  What about this squash-in?

Looks fine.  Thanks.

>>   diff --git a/tests/tap-no-spurious.test b/tests/tap-no-spurious.test
>>   index bb64d2e..c2d5bc5 100755
>>   --- a/tests/tap-no-spurious.test
>>   +++ b/tests/tap-no-spurious.test
>>   @@ -84,10 +84,8 @@ set -x # Reset shell xtraces.
>>
>>    # The prove(1) utility doesn't bail out on these, so our driver
>>    # shouldn't either.
>>   -# Note that older versions of prove and TAP::Harness (e.g., 3.17) didn't
>>   -# recognize a "Bail out!" directive is preceded by white space, but more
>>   -# modern versions (e.g., 3.23) do.  So we leave that behaviour undefined
>>   -# here; it is checked in `tap-bailout-leading-space.test'.
>>   +# See comments in `tap-bailout-leading-space.test' for an explanation
>>   +# of why we don't have a whitespace-prepended "Bail out!" line here.
>>    cat >> all.test <<'END'
>>    bailout
>>    bailout!
>>
>> Thanks, and sorry for the noise,
>>   Stefano
>>
> I've pushed the patch with this amendment.

With that, make check on master (Fedora 16, x86_64) does this:

  # TOTAL: 2477
  # PASS:  2378
  # SKIP:  60
  # XFAIL: 29
  # FAIL:  9
  # XPASS: 0
  # ERROR: 1