t5501-old-fetch-and-upload.sh fails with NO_PYTHON=1

From: Dennis Stosberg <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:23
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Hello,

t/t5501-old-fetch-and-upload.sh fails on Solaris 9 with NO_PYTHON=1.
The test doesn't work correctly on Linux with NO_PYTHON=1, too, but it
doesn't cause a failure there.

When NO_PYTHON=1 is set, t/Makefile passes "--no-python" to the test as
an argument.  That causes the $list variable to be set to "--no-python"
instead of "fetch upload".  Since that string does not identify a
program to be tested, $pgm remains unset.

On Linux the return code of "which $pgm" is 1 in that case, which
causes the test to do nothing and exit without failure.  In contrast,
the return code of "which" without any argument is 0 on Solaris, so
the test is being run and fails.

I have attached a simple fix, but is this test still useful at all?

Regards,
Dennis
diff --git a/t/t5501-old-fetch-and-upload.sh b/t/t5501-old-fetch-and-upload.sh
index 596c88b..df69d97 100755
--- a/t/t5501-old-fetch-and-upload.sh
+++ b/t/t5501-old-fetch-and-upload.sh
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ tmp=`pwd`/.tmp$$
 
 retval=0
 
-if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+tests=`echo "$@"| sed -e 's/--[a-zA-Z\-]*//g'`
+if [ -z "$tests" ]; then
 	list="fetch upload"
 else
-	list="$@"
+	list="$tests"
 fi
 
 for i in $list; do
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