Fixed test-convert to work on Cygwin and other platforms that

[nmh] / test / common.sh.in

diff --git a/test/common.sh.in b/test/common.sh.in
index 8f89a2cd426df231548d3cd3c740484e738a615d..e84d8e62c2d2e2fcad88a73dcf8e96f1acc982d2 100644 (file)
--- a/test/common.sh.in
+++ b/test/common.sh.in
@@ -293,17 +293,12 @@ showproc: ${MH_LIBEXEC_DIR}/mhl
 EOF
 
   if test -z '@nmhetcdirinst@'; then
-    #### This isn't used with make distcheck.
-    for f in MailAliases components digestcomps distcomps forwcomps \
-             mhl.body mhl.digest mhl.format \
-             mhl.forward mhl.headers mhl.reply \
-             mhn.defaults rcvdistcomps replcomps replgroupcomps \
-             scan.MMDDYY scan.YYYYMMDD scan.curses scan.default \
-             scan.highlighted scan.mailx scan.nomime scan.size scan.time \
-             scan.timely scan.unseen
-    do
-      cp "${MH_INST_DIR}${nmhetcdir}/${f}" "${MH_TEST_DIR}/Mail" || exit 1
-    done
+    #### This isn't used with make distcheck, so that we can use it to
+    #### be sure that etc files are not used from an existing nmh
+    #### installation.
+    #### posh doesn't like "${MH_INST_DIR}${nmhetcdir}"/*, so cd to
+    #### the directory and provide an argument without quotes to cp.
+    (cd "${MH_INST_DIR}${nmhetcdir}/"  &&  cp * "${MH_TEST_DIR}/Mail")
   fi
 
   folder -create +inbox > /dev/null