Re: [bug-gzip] gzip-1.5 test failures on FreeBSD 9.0 and NetBSD 5.1

[Paul Eggert]

On 06/19/2012 10:58 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

>     Why is the old /usr/local/bin/zdiff being used in the validation
>     suite checks, instead of the newly-built one?

Good question.  I suspect $PWD malfunction.
Does the following patch fix it?

diff --git a/tests/init.sh b/tests/init.sh
index f525a7c..d53e0db 100644
--- a/tests/init.sh
+++ b/tests/init.sh
@@ -411,12 +411,12 @@ path_prepend_ ()
     case $path_dir_ in
       '') fail_ "invalid path dir: '$1'";;
       /*) abs_path_dir_=$path_dir_;;
-      *) abs_path_dir_=`cd "$initial_cwd_/$path_dir_" && echo "$PWD"` \
-           || fail_ "invalid path dir: $path_dir_";;
+      *) abs_path_dir_=$initial_cwd_/$path_dir_;;
     esac
     case $abs_path_dir_ in
       *:*) fail_ "invalid path dir: '$abs_path_dir_'";;
     esac
+    test -d "$abs_path_dir_/." || fail_ "invalid path dir: $path_dir_";;
     PATH="$abs_path_dir_:$PATH"
 
     # Create an alias, FOO, for each FOO.exe in this directory.
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ setup_ ()
   pfx_=`testdir_prefix_`
   test_dir_=`mktempd_ "$initial_cwd_" "$pfx_-$ME_.XXXX"` \
     || fail_ "failed to create temporary directory in $initial_cwd_"
-  cd "$test_dir_"
+  cd "$test_dir_" || fatal_ "failed to cd to temporary directory"
 
   # As autoconf-generated configure scripts do, ensure that IFS
   # is defined initially, so that saving and restoring $IFS works.