From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 23:26:39 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: tests: don't assume expr was built with GMP
X-Git-Tag: v8.22~142
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c704573729b32bac9a816bcc1d4bdac0985beaa2;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tests: don't assume expr was built with GMP

* tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh (subtract_one): New string.
(CUT_MAX): Don't pass a too-large integer to 'expr'.
---

diff --git a/tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh b/tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh
index e9190a2c2c..7816577b91 100755
--- a/tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh
@@ -21,10 +21,31 @@ print_ver_ cut
 require_ulimit_v_
 getlimits_
 
+# sed script to subtract one from the input.
+# Each input line should consist of a positive decimal number.
+# Each output line's number is one less than the input's.
+# There's no limit (other than line length) on the number's magnitude.
+subtract_one='
+  s/$/@/
+  : again
+  s/0@/@9/
+  s/1@/0/
+  s/2@/1/
+  s/3@/2/
+  s/4@/3/
+  s/5@/4/
+  s/6@/5/
+  s/7@/6/
+  s/8@/7/
+  s/9@/8/
+  t again
+'
+
 # Ensure we can cut up to our sentinel value.
 # This is currently SIZE_MAX, but could be raised to UINTMAX_MAX
 # if we didn't allocate memory for each line as a unit.
-CUT_MAX=$(expr $SIZE_MAX - 1)
+# Don't use expr to subtract one, since SIZE_MAX may exceed its maximum value.
+CUT_MAX=$(echo $SIZE_MAX | sed "$subtract_one")
 
 # From coreutils-8.10 through 8.20, this would make cut try to allocate
 # a 256MiB bit vector.  With a 20MB limit on VM, the following would fail.