I got a test failure in B13 today: Running test: whence symlink resolution ZTST_test: expecting status: 0 Input: /tmp/zsh.ztst.360386/ztst.in, output: /tmp/zsh.ztst.360386/ztst.out, error: /tmp/zsh.ztst.360386/ztst.terr ZTST_execchunk: status 0 ZTST_test: test produced standard output: /opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step1 -> /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step1 -> /SSD-2/opt/ build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step2 -> /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step3 -> /SSD-2/opt/build /zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/real /opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step1 -> /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/real ZTST_test: and standard error: --- /tmp/zsh.ztst.360386/ztst.out 2020-03-26 08:04:38.543366746 -0400 +++ /tmp/zsh.ztst.360386/ztst.tout 2020-03-26 08:04:38.543366746 -0400 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step1 -> /opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step2 -> /opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step3 -> /opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/real -/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step1 -> /opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/real +/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step1 -> /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step1 -> /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step2 -> /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step3 -> /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/real +/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/step1 -> /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/whence.tmp/real Test ../../../src/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/B13whence.ztst failed: output differs from expected as shown above for: ( path=( $PWD/whence.tmp $path ) whence -S step1 whence -s step1 ) Was testing: whence symlink resolution ../../../src/zsh-2020-03-26/Test/B13whence.ztst: test failed. Looking at the diff, I realized that my build directory is under a symlink; /opt -> /SSD-2/opt. The test uses $PWD, which resolves to /opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26, but pwd -r correct identifies the path as /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26; sure enough, if I run the test from /SSD-2/opt/build/zsh-2020-03-26, the test passes. Is the right thing to fix the test, or should $PWD track realpath? - Vin