Re: [Bug-tar] avoid spurious test failure (working --listed), #24

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> One alternative is that 'configure' could complain if "sort" outputs
> anything on stderr given a trivial case.  Or the tests involving
> "sort" could each test for this incompatibility of CoSort, and ignore
> stderr only in that case.

I'd say it's rather a task for configure, not for tests themselves. The
only question is how to test that sort being used is actually CoSort.

Regards,
Sergey