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Failing tests on Solaris in 2.16

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Message #20 received at 16380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>, 16380-done <16380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Aharon Robbins <arnold <at> skeeve.com>
Subject: Re: bug#16380: Failing tests on Solaris in 2.16
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:37:34 -0800

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 01/07/2014 10:53 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> the sourced init.sh code works around it...
>> usually.
>
> Usually, but not here.  I fixed the problem this way;
> tested on Solaris 10.
>
> >From e965a293cf7816ee1deb6d2a1c6fe3690b2a37c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:59:07 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Port to Solaris 10 /bin/sh.
>
> Problem reported by Dagobert Michelsen in <http://bugs.gnu.org/16380>.
> * tests/bre, tests/ere, tests/spencer1-locale:
> Prefer re_shell_ to SHELL, if re_shell_ is set.
> * tests/init.sh (re_shell_): Export if it's used.

Your patch looks fine.  Thanks.  Please be sure to propagate your
init.sh change back to the master version in gnulib/tests.  Otherwise,
the next time we sync from there, we may accidentally revert that part
of the fix.

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