Re: Weird testsuite problems

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

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 >> However, pdksh-5.2.14 cannot run the testsuite. It hangs before doing
 >> anything else and exits only few seconds after I send it SIGTERM.

 Akim> It might be the same as with zsh: these shells want to load the full
 Akim> case/esac and then run it.  In the case of Zsh, it's only a matter of
 Akim> waiting that it swallows all the swap, kills your machine, and then it
 Akim> runs :)

FYI, the Zsh folks have uploaded Zsh 4.0.1-pre-2 yesterday with
a fix for this.  ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/development/zsh-4.0.1-pre-2.tar.gz

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz