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Re: Building Subversion r4503 / self-test commit_tests 16 fails under Cygwin - resolved

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-02-05 19:00:01 CET

Dr.Stefan.Dalibor@bfa.de wrote:

>On 05 Feb 2003 at 00:06, Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Dr.Stefan.Dalibor@bfa.de writes:
>>
>>
>>>But more serious, even after removing the angle brackets from the test
>>>data, the test fails (see below for result details).
>>>Now my questions are:
>>>1. Does this mean the current stable version of Subversion is broken
>>> in the Cygwin environment?
>>>2. Is a patch available from one of the development versions fixing
>>> the bug?
>>>3. Or is the test failure a non-issue, provoked by the ambiguities of
>>> the emulation environment?
>>>
>>>
>>You say you removed the angle brackets from the test data, but from
>>the log of the failing test, it looks like they are still there (or
>>are still being expected by something, anyway).
>>...
>>
>>
>
>Sorry, I goofed up and included the wrong version of the test log
>(please see my second mail with the same subject to Subversion dev
>from 2003-02-04 18:10 for the log of the failed test w/o angle brackets).
>But I think this can be considered to be resolved anyway:
>
>On 04 Feb 2003 17:46, Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>It looks like a problem with the test harness. The problem also
>>occurs on my Linux box if I enable the Windows bit, but the number
>>varies. "$$" is the shell variable for process ID, I guess the $
>>characters need to be escaped somewhere.
>>
>>It's a test harness problem because Subversion does handle $$ from the
>>Unix command line
>>
>>$ touch wc/\$\$
>>$ svn add wc/\$\$
>>A wc/$$
>>$ svn ci wc
>>Adding wc/$$
>>Transmitting file data .
>>Committed revision 6.
>>
>>
>
>I confirmed this under Cygwin - if the following patch is applied to
>commit_tests.py, the test passes (I'm just not sure which would be
>the correct substitution character for the angle bracket under
>Cygwin):
>
>*** /tmp/subversion-r4503/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline/commit_tests.py-orig Wed Jan 22 08:16:09 2003
>--- /tmp/subversion-r4503/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline/commit_tests.py Wed Feb 5 09:51:59 2003
>***************
>*** 1040,1045 ****
>--- 1040,1053 ----
> if svntest.main.windows:
> angle_name = '$angle$'
> nasty_name = '#![]{}()$$%'
>+ elif sys.platform == "cygwin":
>
Why don't you make this a single test?

    if svntest.main.windows or sys.platfor == "cygwin":

That should work marvellously.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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