Re: mailfront 0.94 vs patterns for headers

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.bgware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:46:31AM +0200, Janos Farkas wrote:
> My sh is a recent bash, but compiled with --enable-minimal-config,
> reducing the binary size to 294k instead of 484k, and among many
> others, apparently that leaves out support for functions (that's what
> I meant with "less capable for functions", not a far-eastese :)  That
> causes a lot of weird failures, for example:

If your shell didn't support any functions, the tests would totally and
completely break.  I suspect there is something else at play here.

> +mv: cannot stat `/usr/src/mailfront-0.94/tests-tmp/Maildir/new/2': No
> such file or directory
> ......
> 52 tests executed, 9 failures

I just put in a fix for this.  My scripts included the use of brace
expansion (mkdir $tmp/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}) which isn't portable.

> > You might try testing with ash.
> I don't have that :)  Does it have functions?

Yes.  ash is NetBSD's lightweight bourne shell.
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