Re: Git 2.26.2 and failed self tests on OS X

From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2020, 16:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20200504165214.GF86805@Carlos-MBP>
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8myTMOetxgaj1wt0MbvSQ0LSRV0FHz4ywsBM1zzhUQG=w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 03:03:01AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

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> I'm building Git 2.26.2 from sources on a Mac-mini with OS X 10.12.6
> and a PowerMac with OS X 10.5. Some of the t3902-quoted.sh tests are
> failing.
> 
> The Mac-Mini uses Bash 3.2.57(1)-release. The PowerMac uses 3.2.17(1)-release.

if the problem is the bash version but you can build/install a newer one that doesn't have this problem then you can get the test to use it by pointing to it with TEST_SHELL_PATH as in :

  $ make TEST_SHELL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/bash test

Carlo