Hi Jim, > Would you please amend into it the attached grammar tweak > (subjunctive) and change to avoid crossing the 80-byte line length > limits:
Done, and also implemented Paul's suggestion. Regarding the grammar: I wasn't aware of this "weird quirk in English language" [1]. [1] https://www.englishforums.com/English/RequireThat/cbmhv/post.htm 2019-12-26 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> test-framework-sh: Avoid /bin/sh on AIX 7.2 due to its printf built-in. Reported by Paul Eggert in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grep-devel/2019-12/msg00020.html>. Simplification by Jim Meyering. * tests/init.sh (gl_shell_test_script_): Add a test of printf of an octal escape sequence in a UTF-8 locale. diff --git a/tests/init.sh b/tests/init.sh index 8ca5c90..049e0d3 100644 --- a/tests/init.sh +++ b/tests/init.sh @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ else fi # We require $(...) support unconditionally. +# We require that the printf built-in work correctly regarding octal escapes; +# this eliminates /bin/sh on AIX 7.2. # We require non-surprising "local" semantics (this eliminates dash). # This takes the admittedly draconian step of eliminating dash, because the # assignment tab=$(printf '\t') works fine, yet preceding it with "local " @@ -158,6 +160,12 @@ fi # ? - not ok gl_shell_test_script_=' test $(echo y) = y || exit 1 +LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 printf "\\351" 2>/dev/null \ + | LC_ALL=C tr "\\351" x | LC_ALL=C grep x > /dev/null \ + || exit 1 +printf "\\351" 2>/dev/null \ + | LC_ALL=C tr "\\351" x | LC_ALL=C grep x > /dev/null \ + || exit 1 f_local_() { local v=1; }; f_local_ || exit 1 f_dash_local_fail_() { local t=$(printf " 1"); }; f_dash_local_fail_ score_=10
