From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Zsh and Autotest
Date: 22 Dec 2000 16:08:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mv4g0jgijcm.fsf@nostromo.lrde.epita.fr> (raw)
Hi!
Autotest is a testing framework based on ideas similar to those of
Autoconf. Autoconf's own test suite is based on Autotest. An
Autotest test suite is basically a huge for/case/esac/done (25k lines
for Autoconf). Nobody ever complained about a shell having problems
to handle this.
Nevertheless when I try to run it with Zsh, it basically kills my
machine without starting actual work (-x shows it stops at the for,
i.e., I guess it is trying to find the matching done). I never had
enough patience to see whether it is still preparing before running,
it's just too painful seeing Zsh swallowing the resources like this.
I personally don't care, Bash and Ash run it fine, but maybe you
wanted to know. If people want to give it a try, download
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/cvs/autoconf.tar.gz
The test suite is the shell script `tests/testsuite', which is created
via make check or make testsuite.
Akim
PS/ By the way, yes there is Sh compatibility code in there:
#! /bin/sh
# Be Bourne compatible
if test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && (emulate sh) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
emulate sh
NULLCMD=:
elif test -n "${BASH_VERSION+set}" && (set -o posix) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
set -o posix
fi
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