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Re: tests: env-s.pl: avoid spurious failure on OS X
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: tests: env-s.pl: avoid spurious failure on OS X |
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Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:02:37 -0700 |
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:18 AM Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
> On 20/09/2021 15:19, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:14 AM Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
> >> On 20/09/2021 06:46, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >>> I noticed/fixed a spurious test failure on OS X:
> >>
> >> Oh interesting.
> >> This seems like a more general issue.
> >> Should we do this more centrally by adding to the list in
> >> tests/envvar-check
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> > Adding that name to the list in tests/envvar-check would have no
> > effect, since this case is not about inheriting from the original
> > environment, but rather about something that's inserted upon each
> > "env" invocation.
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> I don't fully understand where that env var is being set,
> but don't see a specific issue with the patch, so please push.
Done.
> BTW that test should not be dependent on the host env(1) since:
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=c8539d36c
Right. it's not.
I confess I did not root-cause, but it seems to be something deeper.
That envvar, __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING is referenced e.g., here
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2228/_index.html
and associated with a file, ~/.CFUserTextEncoding.