On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 03/25/2016 08:16 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> I know that mktemp's -t is not portable, but the code in >> init.sh was supposed to work around that. Did you see >> some place where that work-around failed? > > Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted the debugging output. I saw a 'fail=1' and > thought, "Oh, the script is failing". But it was working correctly (albeit > confusingly). I reverted that part of the change to tests/init.sh in gnulib > and installed further changes that I hope make the test output clearer. > Revised proposed patches to gzip attached.
Thank you for all of those patches. All look fine, so please push. That fail=1 in init.sh has misled me, too, so I'm glad it's gone, now.