Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > One more thing: "make check" doesn't work when built outside of the source
> > > directory (the build itself is fine).  I think changing "./run_test.sh" to
> > > "${srcdir}/run_test.sh" should fix it, but I'm not sure, so I'll leave it
> > > up to you.  Also, when testing, a file called "conflict" is blindly
> > > removed and created in /tmp, and the test itself doesn't seem to work
> > > under Cygwin (i.e., reports no conflicts).  Could the latter have
> > > something to do with the .exe extension (just a guess)?  I'll check later.
> >
> > I think Cygwin's chmod simply didn't believe the file was a script.
> > So I tweaked its contents to help, will test that tomorrow...
>
> Actually, looks like the file created is "conflict", and the tested
> conflict executable is "conflict.exe".  It doesn't look like .exe is part

shell scripts also are executable (no suffix).

> of FileTypes by default, so no conflict is found.  Another clue is that
> "conflict -t.exe." works...  FWIW, "." is explicitly added to the PATH in
> run_test.sh.
>
> BTW, while we're discussing run_test.sh, would it be possible to first
> create a unique directory, and then create the test executable in that
> directory, instead of doing it straight in /tmp?  Something like
>
> DIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/conflict.$$.XXXXXXXX`

something like - but mktemp isn't portable.  The script could test for
that (I do that in dialog).  I did notice this yesterday as well, but
didn't modify that yet.

> cd $DIR
> touch conflict
> chmod 755 conflict
> $PROG
> rm -f conflict
> cd /tmp
> rm -rf $DIR
>
> I can submit the above as a patch if it helps.
> 	Igor
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