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Re: [PATCH] t5300-pack-object.sh: portability issue using /usr/bin/stat

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Apr 7, 2007, 02:33 UTC
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> arjen@yaph.org (Arjen Laarhoven) writes:
> 
> > In the test 'compare delta flavors', /usr/bin/stat is used to get file size.
> > This isn't portable.  There already is a dependency on Perl, use its '-s'
> > operator to get the file size.
> 
> If you do use Perl, then you do not want to do it as two
> separate invocations with their result compared with test.
> 
> How about this on top of your patch?

Well... since this test already depends on wc then why not just use that instead of adding a perl dependency?

Something like:
diff --git a/t/t5300-pack-object.sh b/t/t5300-pack-object.sh
index 35e036a..ba785cf 100755
--- a/t/t5300-pack-object.sh
+++ b/t/t5300-pack-object.sh
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ cd "$TRASH"
 
 test_expect_success \
     'compare delta flavors' \
-    'size_2=`stat -c "%s" test-2-${packname_2}.pack` &&
-     size_3=`stat -c "%s" test-3-${packname_3}.pack` &&
+    'size_2=`wc -c < test-2-${packname_2}.pack` &&
+     size_3=`wc -c < test-3-${packname_3}.pack` &&
      test $size_2 -gt $size_3'
 
 rm -fr .git2
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  1. t5300-pack-object.sh: portability issue using /usr/bin/statArjen Laarhoven, Apr 6, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2007
  3. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2007
  5. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2007
  6. Randal L. SchwartzApr 7, 2007

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