From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 04:14:54 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: tests: date: avoid test failure on NetBSD
X-Git-Tag: v9.9~25
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d273604d0a76cc40dbd0e8606a95b33a0275397;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tests: date: avoid test failure on NetBSD

* tests/date/date-tz.sh: Allow date to fail with large values for TZ
since NetBSD's tzalloc function limits them to 256 bytes.
---

diff --git a/tests/date/date-tz.sh b/tests/date/date-tz.sh
index 5390cf5680..05736f90dc 100755
--- a/tests/date/date-tz.sh
+++ b/tests/date/date-tz.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ print_ver_ date
 
 # coreutils-8.27 would overwrite the heap with large TZ values
 tz_long=$(printf '%2000s' | tr ' ' a)
-date -d "TZ=\"${tz_long}0\" 2017" || fail=1
+date -d "TZ=\"${tz_long}0\" 2017" 2> err
+
+# Gnulib's tzalloc handles arbitrarily long TZ values, but NetBSD's does not.
+case $? in
+  0) ;;
+  *) grep '^date: invalid date' err || fail=1 ;;
+esac
 
 Exit $fail