You might also want to apply the attached follow-up, with prevents an unportable usage of fd redirections in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
Regards, Stefano
From e0512ba0b9e0f91f9f4af0afb9935247b4b5eb91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <e0512ba0b9e0f91f9f4af0afb9935247b4b5eb91.1318410871.git.stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:14:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: use more portable fd redirection in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Redirection with `exec 9>&2' is not portable to various Korn shells, and to (at least) HP-UX 11 /bin/sh. Use a more portable idiom. See <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/22488> for lots of discussion. --- tests/Makefile.am | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am index 0bf072f..0def096 100644 --- a/tests/Makefile.am +++ b/tests/Makefile.am @@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ built_programs = \ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \ tmp__=$$TMPDIR; test -d "$$tmp__" || tmp__=.; \ TMPDIR=$$tmp__; export TMPDIR; \ - exec 9>&2; \ export \ LC_ALL=C \ VERSION=$(VERSION) \ @@ -70,6 +69,6 @@ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \ PERL='$(PERL)' \ SHELL='$(SHELL)' \ PATH='$(abs_top_builddir)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)'"$$PATH" \ - ; + ; 9>&2 VERBOSE = yes -- 1.7.2.3
