On 12.09.20 14:14, Thomas Huth wrote:
> macOS is shipped with a very old version of the bash (3.2), which
> is currently not suitable for running the iotests anymore. Add
> a check to skip the iotests in this case - if someone still wants
> to run the iotests on macOS, they can install a newer version from
> homebrew, for example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/check-block.sh | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/check-block.sh b/tests/check-block.sh
> index 8e29c868e5..bfe1630c1e 100755
> --- a/tests/check-block.sh
> +++ b/tests/check-block.sh
> @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ if ! command -v bash >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
>      exit 0
>  fi
>  
> +if bash --version | grep 'GNU bash, version [123]' > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then

grep -q instead of the redirections, perhaps?

But more importantly, I think this needs a LANG=C prefix.  (If I expand
the rejected major versions to [12345], it doesn’t skip without a
prefix, because the string reads “GNU bash, Version 5...” here in
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8.)

Max

> +    echo "bash version too old ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
> +    exit 0
> +fi
> +
>  if ! (sed --version | grep 'GNU sed') > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
>      if ! command -v gsed >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>          echo "GNU sed not available ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
>