Hello, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:11:47PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hmm. We incorrectly assumed that portability of this construct wasn't an > issue because we were using bash. We aren't. The tester is written in > perl, and except for a few special cases, it blindly execs the commands > in the test cases. So we get /usr/bin/printf called here, not bash's > printf. > > I am using GNU coreutils 8.12 and 8.21 on my machine. I suppose you are > using something else on your system.
Nope, I'm the same. But /bin/sh is an alias to dash here. That might be why, as the runner script seems to use /bin/sh to start the commands that need a shell (such as the ones with a redirection). > $ bash -c "printf '\\x02\\x00\\x01'" > test.bin > > Performance-wise it's suboptimal but I suppose we don't really care. I did that, and it works. Yeah, the performance drop is not noticable on this test file ;) The new patch should be ready now. Stay tuned. Bye, Mt. -- C combines the power of assembler with the portability of assembler. _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
