Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> ... >> > >> > In order to work with the upcoming new Automake testsuite harness, >> > coreutils >> > have two possibilities: >> > 1. move the `shell_or_perl_' subroutine's functionality into a real >> > acript, >> > and define the LOG_COMPILER to point to it; or >> > 2. add a `.pl' extension to the perl test scripts, and define >> > PL_LOG_COMPILER >> > appropriately (might be a little tricky, considering the hops that the >> > `shell_or_perl_' subroutine goes through in order to get the flags and >> > imports right). >> >> 1) sounds preferable. >> > But it has a serious drawback: the redirection `9>&2' placed at the end > of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT will be rendered useless by the final exec done > in the new `shell_or_perl' script (at least for with shells using the > `cloexec' flag on fds > 2); this will bring back the problems fixed by > commit `v8.12-82-g6b68745' :-( > > So I now think we should go with solution (2).
Ok.
