Re: [PATCH] t5300-pack-object.sh: portability issue using /usr/bin/stat

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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arjen@yaph.org (Arjen Laarhoven) writes:

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In the test 'compare delta flavors', /usr/bin/stat is used to get file size.
This isn't portable.  There already is a dependency on Perl, use its '-s'
operator to get the file size.

If you do use Perl, then you do not want to do it as two
separate invocations with their result compared with test.

How about this on top of your patch?

Well... since this test already depends on wc then why not just use that 
instead of adding a perl dependency?

Because (1) other tests already use Perl; (2) wc -c reads pack
to find out the size, "-s $file" doesn't AFAIK.