tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.

* tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
`cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
up its internal memory when copying this tree.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 60612243eaf068d1ffb6ea439a249364124e1d8f..04b30dd369983efb72e0b495b7293fe21d93ba8f 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-01-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
+       * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
+       `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
+       up its internal memory when copying this tree.
+
 2011-01-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
            Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 

diff --git a/tests/fn99.test b/tests/fn99.test
index 982a989bfbf9da58e0f75363ba1aa684d482cf99..a63f2ca08250ab92238637ef255f4618bf02c870 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/fn99.test
+++ b/tests/fn99.test
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2004, 2008  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2004, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ do
   touch x
 done) || Exit 77
 
+# AIX 5.3 `cp -R' is too buggy for `make dist'.
+cp -R 12345678 t || Exit 77
+
 $ACLOCAL
 $AUTOCONF
 $AUTOMAKE

diff --git a/tests/fn99subdir.test b/tests/fn99subdir.test
index 465f2afc04662b6e86c95db25c067449aa003b2c..33ac6632c10e0cd37d503b3ab4f2e34e7ce322fa 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/fn99subdir.test
+++ b/tests/fn99subdir.test
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2006, 2008  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ do
   touch x
 done)
 
+# AIX 5.3 `cp -R' is too buggy for `make dist'.
+cp -R ${subdirname} t || Exit 77
+
 for init_dir in ${subdirname} .; do
        (
                cd ${init_dir} || Exit 1