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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: "Eric Wong" <e@80x24•org>, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>,
	"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web•de>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: stricter unzip(1) check
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:52:31 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607181536540.3472@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160718130405.GA19751@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff & Eric,

On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Jeff King wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 06:44:31AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> > On FreeBSD 10.3 (but presumably any FreeBSD 8+), /usr/bin/unzip
> > exists, but is insufficient for t5003 due to its non-standard
> > handling of the -a option[1].  This version of unzip exits
> > with "1" when given the "-v" flag.
> > 
> > However, the common Info-ZIP version may be installed at
> > /usr/local/bin/unzip (via "pkg install unzip") to pass t5003.
> > This Info-ZIP version exits with "0" when given "-v",
> > so limit the prereq to only versions which return 0 on "-v".

Hrm. That sounds a little magical, and fragile, to me. What if the next
person's unzip returns 0 and *still* cannot handle -a?

I'd rather do something like

-- snipsnap --
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 0055ebb..5b9521e 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -929,7 +929,8 @@ yes () {
 }
 
 # Fix some commands on Windows
-case $(uname -s) in
+uname_s=$(uname -s)
+case $uname_s in
 *MINGW*)
 	# Windows has its own (incompatible) sort and find
 	sort () {
@@ -1100,6 +1101,7 @@ test_lazy_prereq SANITY '
 	return $status
 '
 
+test FreeBSD != $uname_s || GIT_UNZIP=${GIT_UNZIP:-/usr/local/bin/unzip}
 GIT_UNZIP=${GIT_UNZIP:-unzip}
 test_lazy_prereq UNZIP '
 	"$GIT_UNZIP" -v

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-18  6:44 [PATCH] test-lib: stricter unzip(1) check Eric Wong
2016-07-18 13:04 ` Jeff King
2016-07-18 13:52   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-07-18 18:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 18:56       ` Jeff King
2016-07-18 19:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-19 11:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-19 17:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 19:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 20:03     ` Eric Wong
2016-07-18 20:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 21:19         ` Eric Wong
2016-07-18 21:27           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 23:41     ` Jeff King

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