Re: parted-1.9.0 -- comments and patches

[Curtis Gedak]

Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> > ....  Did you test
> > your patch.  Does it really fix the fact that that the test does not
> > PASS. ...
>
> Yes, of course.  The result was the same when running the test via my
> build+check+install script or when running 'make check' interactively 
> in the
> tests/ directory (of the build tree): FAIL without the patch, PASS 
> with it.
>
> > ...  judging by your output, adding a "n" to the end of the string
> > will not make it succeed.
>
> The difference is that the test (t7000-scripting) asks a question 
> ansered by
> 'n', whereas the example doesn't ask.  Thus the "echo n |" is ignored and
> has no effect. 

I too am experiencing a similar problem with failed tests when I run 
"make check" on parted-1.9.0.

I do not have the readline package installed and hence configure the 
code with:

    ./configure --without-readline

Perhaps the failure of the two tests is related to whether readline is 
installed or not?

Regards,
Curtis Gedak