Re: Errors testing on macOS High Sierra version 10.13.4

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Apr 5, 2018, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cT6wq3=0ychBH9+YharVvX8KNFLStdb8wGG33o_Lungyg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Wink Saville <wink@saville.com> wrote:

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> I built git on a mac osx laptop and got some errors when testing.
> I ran ./ci/run-build-and-tests.sh and three of the tests had failures
> that appear to be associated with character encoding:
> ...
> Of course on travis-ci there are no failures so I dug deeper and found
> that travis-ci is running 10.12.6 (I added a call to system_profier in
> ci/run-build-and-tests.sh) where as I'm running is 10.13.4:
>
> Not sure, but maybe I've got something configured incorrectly.
> Suggestions anyone?

I'm still on 10.12.6 and I don't plan on upgrading, so you may need to dig into this yourself.

Try narrowing down the problem to the exact command within the test which is failing or giving unexpected results. From there, it may be possible to identify some difference between 10.12.6 and 10.13.4 or between something in your current configuration and that on Travis or elsewhere.