Re: [PULL v2 00/52] Misc patches for QEMU 5.1 soft freeze

[Max Reitz]

On 10.07.20 17:18, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 16:13, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10.07.20 16:44, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>>> Speaking of MacOS and CI, commit 57ee95ed4ee7b4c039ec5f0705c45734c56706bc
>>>
>>> Author: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
>>> Date:   Thu Jun 25 14:55:30 2020 +0200
>>>
>>>     iotests: Make _filter_img_create more active
>>>
>>> broke cirrus-ci completely for me due to missing "readarray" builtin.
>>>
>>> Maybe it is bash vs zsh?
>>
>> Possible, but the iotests depend on bash.  All the iotests shell source
>> files explicitly reference bash in their shebang line, and so far we’ve
>> always assumed that they are thus going to be run by bash.
> 
> readarray only arrived sometime in bash 4, and the OSX system
> bash is 3.2.57, so it won't have that builtin.

It arrived with 4.0, actually, which was released 11 years ago.
I had assumed that would be sufficiently mature.

So, um, 11 years isn’t sufficiently mature then and I’ll have to work
around not having readarray for macOS?

Max