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Message #22 received at 23107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>,
 "bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org List" <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>, 23107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] test-framework-sh: port to NetBSD 7.0
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:07:13 -0700

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 03/25/2016 08:16 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> I know that mktemp's -t is not portable, but the code in
>> init.sh was supposed to work around that. Did you see
>> some place where that work-around failed?
>
> Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted the debugging output. I saw a 'fail=1' and
> thought, "Oh, the script is failing". But it was working correctly (albeit
> confusingly). I reverted that part of the change to tests/init.sh in gnulib
> and installed further changes that I hope make the test output clearer.
> Revised proposed patches to gzip attached.

Thank you for all of those patches. All look fine, so please push.
That fail=1 in init.sh has misled me, too, so I'm glad it's gone, now.

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