bug#79301: fold-spaces test failure

Collin Funk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruno Haible <[email protected]> writes:

> On 2025-08-24 I wrote:
>> Today's CI reports a test failure
>>   FAIL: tests/fold/fold-spaces
>> on several systems:
>>   - Alpine Linux,
>>   - macOS 13..15,
>>   - FreeBSD 14.
>
> Sorry for the incorrect reporting: macOS 13 and 14 failed with a fold-nbsp
> failure (bug #79300), not a fold-spaces failure.
>
> As of today, the failures on macOS 13 and 14 are fixed. The failures on
>   - Alpine Linux,
>   - macOS 15,
>   - FreeBSD 14
> are still present in today's CI run.

Yep, I was planning on fixing this one next. So them failing is
expected.

No worries about the slightly wrong platform list. I could reproduce
them just fine.

My thinking is that the only portable test is ASCII space or TAB, since
POSIX only requires those be treated as blank characters. I think it is
fine to leave the current tests under a check for $host_os being gnu.

Collin
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