From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:18:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Redirect stderr into a pipe.
X-Git-Tag: v0.17~83
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3193074f30ee1ef7906cdd7b69c968777d3b84c4;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git

Redirect stderr into a pipe.
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diff --git a/gnulib-local/ChangeLog b/gnulib-local/ChangeLog
index 916aa55df..d3f2b21a7 100644
--- a/gnulib-local/ChangeLog
+++ b/gnulib-local/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-10-25  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	* tests/test-term-ostream-xterm: Redirect stderr into a pipe.
+
 2007-10-21  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	* tests/test-term-ostream-xterm-solaris10.out: New file.
@@ -6,6 +10,7 @@
 	* tests/test-term-ostream-xterm-irix65.out: New file.
 	* tests/test-term-ostream-xterm-mingw.out: New file.
 	* tests/test-term-ostream-xterm: Use them as possible test results.
+	* modules/term-ostream-tests (Files): Add the new files.
 	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add the new files.
 
 2007-10-17  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
diff --git a/gnulib-local/tests/test-term-ostream-xterm b/gnulib-local/tests/test-term-ostream-xterm
index 79e4f7f2d..3b4c6911a 100755
--- a/gnulib-local/tests/test-term-ostream-xterm
+++ b/gnulib-local/tests/test-term-ostream-xterm
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ tmpfiles=""
 trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
 
 tmpfiles="$tmpfiles out"
-TERM=xterm ./test-term-ostream > out
+# The redirection of stderr into a pipe avoids the output of padding bytes
+# (unnecessary NUL bytes after escape sequences) on some systems.
+(TERM=xterm ./test-term-ostream > out) 2>&1 | cat 1>&2
 
 # There are several variants of the "xterm" terminal description floating
 # around, each with a different sgr0 escape sequence. Use "infocmp -l -1 xterm"