[Toybox] avoiding testing shell builtins

[enh]

No, this is on Android. I get an error from /system/bin/mksh from the first
test.

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 16:42 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 6/26/19 3:42 PM, enh wrote:
> > your patch doesn't fix this for me. even with testcmd i'm still seeing
> > the mksh builtin kill get run rather than the toybox kill...
>
> With TEST_HOST it tests just the command name, however the shell decides to
> resolve that. Without that it tests the path to the toybox command.
>
> Instead you want the TEST_HOST version also to not test the shell builtin?
> (Some
> host systems don't have non-builtin versions of things like "echo". It's a
> design question of what counts as the "host version"...)
>
> Rob
>
>
> > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 7:35 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 6/22/19 11:26 AM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> >>> i realized today that the kill tests are testing the shell's builtin
> >>> kill, not the toybox kill. one solution would be to use env, but
> >>> presumably that would be better in the infrastructure rather than
> >>> having to remember to do it in each test that might be subverted by a
> >>> builtin?
> >>
> >> This is why I added testcmd and $C a while back. (Although currently it
> won't
> >> work if the path to the testing directory has a space in it, because I
> hadn't
> >> quoted $C. Just fixed that...)
> >>
> >> Rob
> >
>
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