Re: t7800 test failure

[Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> t7800 fails on systems where readlink (GNUism?) is not available.
>>
>> I don't think it's POSIX, but it is present on all POSIX-like systems I
>> know. On which system did you get the issue?

It's not available in AIX or HP-UX.

>>> +readlink() { ls -ld "$1" | sed 's/.* -> //'; }
>>
>> This is much less robust than the actual readlink. For example, if ->
>> appears in the link name, it breaks.
>
> I wouldn't allow it in our scripted Porcelain, but the environment
> of our test scripts are under our control, so I do not think it is a
> problem ("ls piped to sed" has been an established idiom before
> readlink(1) was widely accepted, by the way).

I think so too. Maybe I can improve the sed expression a bit, but
it will never be a universal readlink replacement. But it doesn't have to.
It's defined locally for this one test only and it does the specific job.

>> It would be acceptable as a fall-back if readlink is not present, but
>> shouldn't activate the "ls" hack by default.
>
> Yup.

Ok, how can this be implemented within the test environment?