Jim Meyering wrote:
> Michael Felt wrote:
>
>> Sorry, lost me there...
>>
>> So, hopefully to improve both our understanding of what is happening...
>>
>> 1. I am using ksh (using bash did not change anything, unfortunately).
>> 2. Running only init.sh returns the following (first not set, then set
>> VERBOSE=
>> yes)
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear.
> I was explaining to Paul why VERBOSE=yes was having no effect.
> init.sh is used internally via most tests. There's no point
> in running it stand-alone.
>
> Here's something you can try, though:
>
> edit init.sh and insert a "#" at the beginning of the set -x line.
> I.e., change this:
>
> if $gl_set_x_corrupts_stderr_; then
> warn_ "using SHELL=$SHELL with 'set -x' corrupts stderr"
> else
> set -x
> fi
Sheesh. Sorry. That was bogus advice and would have no effect for you.
Please replace with this instead:
if $gl_set_x_corrupts_stderr_; then
warn_ "using SHELL=$SHELL with 'set -x' corrupts stderr"
fi
set -x
> Then run "make check VERBOSE=yes" and send us the tests/test-suite.log
> it produces.
>
> That will probably induce additional test failures,
> but at least it will allow us to see verbose output.
