Re: FAIL: make.test

[Patrick Welche]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:36:36PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> I managed to reproduce this (on NetBSD 1.5.2), and reduced the
> failure to the following script:
> 
> % cat foo.sh
> set -e
> for x in a; do
>    BAR="foo"
>    false && echo true
>    echo mumble
> done
> % sh -x foo.sh
> + set -e
> + BAR=foo
> + false
> 
> This ought to print "mumble".  It does so if you remove the loop
> or the variable assignment.  So that's definitely looks like bug
> in NetBSD's sh.
> 
> Could you take care of reporting this bug wherever appropriate?
> (I'm not a NetBSD user myself, and the sh man page doesn't show
> any bug-report address.)

Thank you for the analysis! A search through NetBSD's bug database shows
there is an open report bin/11542 with practically the same test case:

% cat foo.sh
set -e
for x in 1; do
    false && true
done
echo "reached end"

(yes, even same file name :) )

Thank you,

Patrick