On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:50:29 +0300, "Sergey Poznyakoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > > > For the time being? It does no harm (IMHO) and only guards against old, > > unsupported or non standard-conforming systems, nor does it break tar. > > Perhaps I didn't express myself well enough. All you say is true. What I > meant is that the patch avoids fseek buggy behavior only when > seek_offset==0, but I am not sure that this bug does not exist when > seek_offset > 0, as well. I doubt that, as this patch fixed all testcases. Of course I did not dig into all the ways genfile was called, but for now I'd leave the subject for what it is. > This might require some more experimenting on > your platform. On the other hand, since this platform is obsolete, I > doubt if it's worth the effort. It is not worth the effort. > > > I'll see what can be done. > > > > Start with documenting how to run a single test in > > README/INSTALL/whateverfileyouthinkbest > > I'll do. Technically speaking, the cause of that particular problem > (running two testcases with -k pipe) is that testsuite looks for > keywords in both keyword section of the testcase and in its header > string. > > > I really looked and couldn't find it > > Have you tried ./testsuite --help ? :) Of course not, that would be too obvious! :) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
