On MinGW, substitution of CR and 0xFF fails.

* tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters):
MinGW awk cannot handle 0xFF, and on MinGW, the test does the
wrong thing for CR.

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

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2a73baa8289e837d44b8f970f439916529c06e68..d11c6db220af3b08a99711472ac8ef53dfe15a8a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-03-04  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       On MinGW, substitution of CR and 0xFF fails.
+       * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters):
+       MinGW awk cannot handle 0xFF, and on MinGW, the test does the
+       wrong thing for CR.
+
 2008-03-04  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
        Pull in recent maintainer improvements from coreutils.

diff --git a/tests/torture.at b/tests/torture.at
index d8ae8f364e155d8becf11617de67c3e901ee524b..60e26d46a3547da8f797dca54c23fc2f513230db 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/torture.at
+++ b/tests/torture.at
@@ -778,7 +778,9 @@ baz=bla
     for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
       for k in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
        case $i$j$k in #(
-       000) ;; #(
+       000 | 015 | 377) ;; # MinGW awk dislikes 0xFF, and the test does
+                           # the wrong thing for CR on MinGW.
+                           #(
        *) printf \\$i$j$k's' ;; # The 's' works around a Solaris 8 /bin/bash bug.
        esac
       done