Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.29.64-1755f.tar.xz

[Matias Fonzo]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:43:42 -0700
Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 27/06/18 14:34, Matias Fonzo wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I can't test this snapshot because the testsuite tries to unset
> > the COLUMNS variable for shells that insist to use it, like mksh.
> > 
> > This come from envvar-check.sh  
> 
> Indeed. Looks like ksh shells work like that.
> You should be able to run like:
> 
>   make VERBOSE=1 SHELL=/bin/bash check

I will try that.
 
> I'll look into making this work transparently.
> 

I haven't the checked the rest of the code in the testsuite, but maybe
you could use: env COLUMNS=value <command>