Hello automakers.
I recently discovered that the recommended way to run the automake's
test scripts with Zsh, as described in the `tests/README' file (and
introduced by a patch of myself!), does not work with Zsh version 3.x.
This is because Zsh3 does not recognize the `--no-function-argzero'
option:
$ zsh4 --no-function-argzero -c 'setopt | grep functionargzero'
nofunctionargzero
$ zsh3 --no-function-argzero -c 'setopt | grep functionargzero'
-c: can't open input file: -c
Luckily, there is an absolutely equivalent way to run Zsh with the
NO_FUNCTION_ARGZERO option on from the beginning, which works for
both Zsh3 and Zsh4:
$ zsh4 -o no_function_argzero -c 'setopt | grep functionargzero'
nofunctionargzero
$ zsh3 -o no_function_argzero -c 'setopt | grep functionargzero'
nofunctionargzero
The fix to tests/README is very easy (just one line is changed),
and is done in the attached patch.
Regards,
Stefano
From 5800a441ba51fb03efb51bc2cdcbcae506db09fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:27:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix recommended way to run test scripts with Zsh
* tests/README (Supported shells): Changed the recommended way
to run automake's test scripts with Zsh. Now we tell to use
the Zsh's command line option `-o no_function_argzero', not
`--no-function-argzero', since the latter does not work with
versions 3.x of Zsh.
---
ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++
tests/README | 2 +-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c76e559..42a501c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2009-10-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> (tiny change)
+
+ Fix recommended way to run automake's test scripts with Zsh.
+ * tests/README (Supported shells): Changed the recommended way
+ to run automake's test scripts with Zsh. Now we tell to use
+ the Zsh's command line option `-o no_function_argzero', not
+ `--no-function-argzero', since the latter does not work with
+ versions 3.x of Zsh.
+
2009-09-25 Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de>
Use silent-rules for building the Automake package.
diff --git a/tests/README b/tests/README
index b264881..4068ad6 100644
--- a/tests/README
+++ b/tests/README
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Supported shells
no easy workaround. Thus, if you want to run a test script, say
foo.test, with Zsh, you *can't* simply do `zsh foo.test', but you
*must* resort to:
- zsh --no-function-argzero foo.test
+ zsh -o no_function_argzero foo.test
Note that this problem does not occur if zsh is executed through a
symlink with a basename of `sh', since in that case it starts
--
1.6.3.3
