From 20018a0c094f576589ea82d5ca5116dfd3c0ea55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:07:42 -0700 Subject: test: Emit a friendly error message if run with bash < 4.0. The bash code in the test suite is using associative arrays which were only added to bash as of release 4.0. If the test suite is run with an older bash, we now immediately error out and explain the situation, (instead of emitting confusing error messages and failing dozens of tests, which is what happened before this change). --- test/notmuch-test | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'test/notmuch-test') diff --git a/test/notmuch-test b/test/notmuch-test index 7feb5bdf..60c3ecbc 100755 --- a/test/notmuch-test +++ b/test/notmuch-test @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/bin/sh +#!/bin/bash # Run tests # @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ # # Adapted from a Makefile to a shell script by Carl Worth (2010) +if [ ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]} -lt 4 ]; then + echo "Error: The notmuch test suite requires a bash version >= 4.0" + echo "due to use of associative arrays within the test suite." + echo "Please try again with a newer bash (or help us fix the" + echo "test suite to be more portable). Thanks." + exit 1 +fi + cd $(dirname "$0") TESTS="basic new search json thread-naming reply dump-restore uuencode thread-order author-order from-guessing long-id encoding emacs" -- cgit v1.2.3