From: Mark Jamsek <mark@jamsek.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc] regress: add line number to failure output
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:11:26 +1100

On 23-02-14 12:47PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Mark Jamsek:
> 
> > I made adjusting regress for the new fetch behaviour change more
> > difficult than necessary because of a copypasta error where the reported
> > failure returned a bogus test function. Silly error on my part but to
> > figure out the cause of the failure I added $LINENO to the output such
> 
> Portability concern: Although LINENO is in POSIX, it's only covered
> as part of an extension.  dash, the somewhat popular minimalist sh
> on Linux, does not support it ... or at least older versions of
> dash still used by stable versions of Debian don't support LINENO.

Thanks, naddy! I wasn't too sure of its portability impact so was hoping
you or someone as knowledgeable would have some insight.

It's really not an important change; it just helped with a problem of my
own making and I thought to share it in case it might have some broader
utility that appeals to others. But our tests already do provide enough
info to isolate any problems so I think it might be best to forget this,
at least for now.

Thanks again :)

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Mark Jamsek <fnc.bsdbox.org|got.bsdbox.org>
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