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Re: the test suite fails -- because of ncurses-5.6
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: the test suite fails -- because of ncurses-5.6 |
Date: |
Thu, 17 May 2007 13:23:16 +0200 |
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Then perhaps it's readline?
>> Do you still get it if you invoke parted like this?
>>
>> # env TERM=dumb parted /dev/hda quit | od -a
>
> # env TERM=dumb parted /dev/hda quit | od -a
> 0000000
>
...
> It's ncurses. Downgrading from 5.6 to 5.5 made the bytes go away:
Thanks for confirming.
Here's this fix we'll use:
>From 6658990cc39e81f6b3594cd6536569c4da53a604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:21:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid spurious test failures due to buggy ncurses-5.6.
* tests/test-lib.sh: Also unset TERM.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
---
tests/test-lib.sh | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tests/test-lib.sh b/tests/test-lib.sh
index 170573d..8370963 100644
--- a/tests/test-lib.sh
+++ b/tests/test-lib.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ export LANG LC_ALL TZ
# CDPATH into the environment
unset CDPATH
+# Avoid spurious test failures due to buggy ncurses-5.6.
+unset TERM
+
# Each test should start with something like this, after copyright notices:
#
# test_description='Description of this test...
- the test suite fails, Benno Schulenberg, 2007/05/16
- Re: the test suite fails, Jim Meyering, 2007/05/16
- Re: the test suite fails, Benno Schulenberg, 2007/05/16
- Re: the test suite fails, Jim Meyering, 2007/05/16
- Re: the test suite fails, Benno Schulenberg, 2007/05/16
- Re: the test suite fails, Jim Meyering, 2007/05/16
- Re: the test suite fails, Benno Schulenberg, 2007/05/16
- Re: the test suite fails, Jim Meyering, 2007/05/17
- Re: the test suite fails -- because of ncurses-5.6, Benno Schulenberg, 2007/05/17
- Re: the test suite fails -- because of ncurses-5.6,
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