Am 28.10.2013 10:13, schrieb Ben Walton: > Solaris' tr (both /usr/bin/ and /usr/xpg4/bin) uses the System V > semantics for tr whereby string1's length is truncated to the length > of string2 if string2 is shorter. The BSD semantics, as used by GNU tr > see string2 padded to the length of string1 using the final character > in string2. POSIX explicitly doesn't specify the correct behavior > here, making both equally valid. > > This difference means that Solaris' native tr implementations produce > different results for tr ":\t\n" "\0" than GNU tr. This breaks a few > tests in t0008-ignores.sh. > > Possible fixes for this are to make string2 be "\0\0\0" or "[\0*]". > > Instead, use perl to perform these transliterations which means we > don't need to worry about the difference at all. Since we're replacing > tr with perl, we also use perl to replace the sed invocations used to > transform the files. In other tests, we check for prerequisite PERL, i.e., we are prepared that perl is not available. Shouldn't we do that here, too? But OTOH, I think that we should skip as few test cases as possible in such a basic test as t0008. Just some food for thought... -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html