Re: wordexp test failure

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

>>>>> Geoff Clare writes:

Geoff> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote, on Fri 25 Feb 2000:
>> 
>> The current glibc 2.2 version from CVS fails make check for wordexp.
>> 
>> The failing test is:
>> Test 131 (${var#~root}x): FAILED
>> Test words: <${var#~root}x>, need retval 0, wordc 1
>> Got retval 0, wordc 1: </home/ajx> 
>> 
>> Geoff, this is one of the testcase you've contributed recently.  Do
>> you now what's broken?

Geoff> I was on vacation last week, so I didn't get your mail until today.

Geoff> This test isn't one of the ones I added.  There are only 127 tests in the
Geoff> version of wordexp-test.c that I have (i.e. the 2.1.2 version plus my patch).

There were some added in 1999 to the 2.2 version - but not to 2.1.  We
don't add all new testcases to 2.1.x - some are only added to the
development version of 2.2.

Geoff> Without seeing the code for the test, it's hard to guess what might be
Geoff> wrong.  If you can send me the latest wordexp-test.c I'll investigate. 

I'll send them separatly.

Thanks,
Andreas
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