tests/test-check-py3-commands.t
author Jun Wu <quark@fb.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:25:18 +0000
changeset 30556 c059286a0f9c
parent 30349 954002426f78
child 30569 bcb858396233
permissions -rw-r--r--
tests: replace "cp -r" with "cp -R" The POSIX documentation about "cp" [1] says: .... RATIONALE .... Earlier versions of this standard included support for the -r option to copy file hierarchies. The -r option is historical practice on BSD and BSD-derived systems. This option is no longer specified by POSIX.1-2008 but may be present in some implementations. The -R option was added as a close synonym to the -r option, selected for consistency with all other options in this volume of POSIX.1-2008 that do recursive directory descent. The difference between -R and the removed -r option is in the treatment by cp of file types other than regular and directory. It was implementation-defined how the - option treated special files to allow both historical implementations and those that chose to support -r with the same abilities as -R defined by this volume of POSIX.1-2008. The original -r flag, for historic reasons, did not handle special files any differently from regular files, but always read the file and copied its contents. This had obvious problems in the presence of special file types; for example, character devices, FIFOs, and sockets. .... .... Issue 6 The -r option is marked obsolescent. .... Issue 7 .... The obsolescent -r option is removed. .... (No "Issue 8" yet) Therefore it's clear that "cp -R" is strictly better than "cp -r". The issue was discovered when running tests on OS X after 0d87b1caed92. [1]: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cp.html

#require py3exe

This test helps in keeping a track on which commands we can run on
Python 3 and see what kind of errors are coming up.
The full traceback is hidden to have a stable output.

  $ for cmd in version debuginstall ; do
  >   echo $cmd
  >   $PYTHON3 `which hg` $cmd 2>&1 2>&1 | tail -1
  > done
  version
  NameError: name 'basestring' is not defined
  debuginstall
  NameError: name 'basestring' is not defined