>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: Junio> arjen@xxxxxxxx (Arjen Laarhoven) writes: >> In the test 'compare delta flavors', /usr/bin/stat is used to get file size. >> This isn't portable. There already is a dependency on Perl, use its '-s' >> operator to get the file size. Junio> If you do use Perl, then you do not want to do it as two Junio> separate invocations with their result compared with test. Junio> How about this on top of your patch? Junio> diff --git a/t/t5300-pack-object.sh b/t/t5300-pack-object.sh Junio> index a400e7a..5710a23 100755 Junio> --- a/t/t5300-pack-object.sh Junio> +++ b/t/t5300-pack-object.sh Junio> @@ -123,11 +123,13 @@ test_expect_success \ Junio> done' Junio> cd "$TRASH" Junio> -test_expect_success \ Junio> - 'compare delta flavors' \ Junio> - 'size_2=`perl -e "print -s q[test-2-${packname_2}.pack]"` && Junio> - size_3=`perl -e "print -s q[test-3-${packname_3}.pack]"` && Junio> - test $size_2 -gt $size_3' Junio> +test_expect_success 'compare delta flavors' ' Junio> + perl -e " Junio> + exit ( ((-s q[test-2-${packname_2}.pack]) > Junio> + (-s q[test-3-${packname_3}.pack])) Junio> + ? 0 : 1); Junio> + " Junio> +' I'd go with: perl -e ' defined($_ = -s $_) or die for @ARGV; exit 1 if $ARGV[0] <= $ARGV[1]; ' test-2-$packname_2.pack test-3.$packname_3.pack which also tests to make sure the -s returned something, and works a lot less hard to quote the filenames coming in (they come in via @ARGV instead of triple interpolation). I'm not sure how to shoehorn that into test_expect_success, but this is better Perl at least. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! - 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