On Sat, Feb 12 2022, David Bremner wrote: > Michael J Gruber <g...@grubix.eu> writes: > > >> When analysing this, I was confused by the way >> test_require_external_prereq works and the "if" in T380 (as opposed to how >> test_require_external_prereq is used in other tests). Over at git.git, >> we have test setup code in functions which don't get executed if >> prerequisites fail. I guess the "if" emulates that, but then the actual >> tests in T380 are outside the if block and use files and variables which >> are created in the if block. So, this is something to fix anyways. > > agreed. > >> Add to this the fact that the tests needing sfsexp or asan (and probably >> others) do things yet differently and call "test_done" immediately, so >> that no SKIP appears. And those were the only ones skipped at all here ... >> > > I think that's probably my fault for also not really understanding the > prereq system. > > >> In the short run, initialising variables and files which are used is >> still a good thing, but I would have to rewrite some commit messages. > > sure. > >> I'll wait until it's clear how to handle style, though: switch to printf >> from echo whenever I touch those lines (leading to mixed use) or keeing >> style and leaving the style change for another series. > > I think I lean to fixing the usage of echo -n incrementally (i.e. don't > introduce more). It might be a bit uglier in the short term, but > eventually we'll get there.
If there currently is zero printf's and only echo, I'd personally continue to use echos -- but either way is ok by me > It turns out that echo is _not_ builtin in bash, so this really is a > portability bug. Wat? afaik echo is builtin in every modern bourne shell derivative... (I tested: $ bash -c 'builtin echo foo' foo $ bash -c 'export PATH=/tmp; echo foo; ls' foo bash: ls: command not found ) Tomi > > d _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org
