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Re: How do I run tests under Valgrind?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 21, 2012, 20:49 UTC
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<20120921204907.GA22977@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:13:09PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
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> On 09/21/2012 09:58 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> >> I was able to reproduce the problem on all my machines, and I consider
> >> this very disturbing.  However, I was successfully able to corner the
> >> issue. I have an overtly long $PATH that's not getting split properly
> >> by `IFS=:` in one corner case -- in other words, this shell script
> >> fails to execute properly when called with `--tee` (just set a really
> >> long $PATH and try):
> > 
> > Oops.  Looks like it has nothing to do with an overtly long $PATH.  It
> > has something to do with $SHELL being zsh though, because other shells
> > work.  Looking deeper into this.
> > 
> Zsh doesn't do word-splitting by default on variable expansions:
> 
>     $ zsh -c 'v="1 2 3"; for x in $v; do echo "$x"; done'
>     1 2 3
> 
> unless you set the SH_WORD_SPLIT option, or put Zsh in Bourne-compatibility
> mode somehow:

Oh. It sounds like setting $SHELL to zsh is really the problem, then. If it is not Bourne-compatible when called as "zsh", then it really should be called in a way that turns on compatibility mode (bash will do this when called as "sh", but you can also do it with "bash --posix").

-Peff
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  16. Jeff KingSep 21, 2012
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  18. Jeff KingSep 22, 2012
  19. Stefano LattariniSep 22, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2012
  21. t/test-lib.sh: do not trust $SHELLRamkumar Ramachandra, Sep 21, 2012
  22. Jeff KingSep 21, 2012
  23. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 21, 2012
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