Re: progress test failure on fedora34

>
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 2:08 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 14 2021, Alex Henrie wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:39 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> > > <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Jul 14 2021, Fabian Stelzer wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> > The test t0500-progress-display.sh in current master fails on latest
> > >> > fedora34.
> > >> > The break was introduced with:
> > >> >
> > >> > 83ae1edff7ee0b7674bd556955d2cf1706bddb21
> > >> > ab/fix-columns-to-80-during-tests (2021-06-29) 1 commit
> > >> >
> > >> > Kind regards,
> > >> > Fabian
> > >>
> > >> I have not been able to reproduce this, it seems the below E-Mail was
> > >> word-wrapped by your mailer, which is especially bad here since getting
> > >> to the bottom of this requires looking at the whitespace.
> > >>
> > >> Is there a way you could tar that up and send it (to me personally is
> > >> fine, or some pastebin or whatever).
> > >>
> > >> I am able to reproduce something that looks like this if I
> > >> s/COLUMNS=80/COLUMNS=79/g in the test-lib, but given that we set it to
> > >> 80, and that the progress.c code just ends up with an
> > >> atoi(getenv("COLUMNS")), and we do our own wrapping (with no other fancy
> > >> logic) in progress.c, I'm not seeing right now how this could happen...
> > >
> > > This test also fails for me when using QTerminal or Konsole, but it
> > > passes on XTerm and LXTerminal.
> >
> > I tried this on Debian 11 with QTerminal 0.16.1 and can't reproduce it,
> > resized the window etc., always get COLUMNS=80 if I add some printf
> > debugging.
>
> Actually, it looks like the difference was that I didn't resize the
> XTerm or LXTerminal windows. The tests pass on all four if the
> terminal emulator window is exactly 80 columns wide, and they fail on
> all four if the window is any wider or narrower.