Stricter parallel Exists Check
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There are 2 common implementations of `parallel`: GNU parallel (https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) and moreutils' parallel (https://manpages.debian.org/testing/moreutils/parallel.1.en.html, https://linux.die.net/man/1/parallel). The former is much more feature rich and is the actual intended dependency of parallel tests in bats. The latter is far more common on many operating systems (including Ubuntu). Currently, when the `parallel.bats` file runs, it checks to see if `parallel` is available and will skip the test if not. Unfortunately, this only checks that there is _a_ `parallel` command available -- not necessarily the correct one. If moreutils parallel is installed, the skip will not occur and the test will later fail in "libexec/bats-core/bats-exec-suite", when trying to run `parallel --keep-order --jobs ...` -- these CLI args are unknown to moreutils `parallel`. This PR improves the check such that not _any_ `parallel` command will work. This check is extended by checking that the `parallel` command supports `--version`, which distinguishes between GNU parallel (supported) and moreutils parallel (unsupported).
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This check should also be updated in libexec/bats. And we should make a test for that. |
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Added to description that this fixes #672. |
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There are 2 common implementations of
parallel: GNU parallel (https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) and moreutils' parallel (https://manpages.debian.org/testing/moreutils/parallel.1.en.html, https://linux.die.net/man/1/parallel).The former is much more feature rich and is the actual intended dependency of parallel tests in bats.
The latter is far more common on many operating systems (including Ubuntu).
Currently, when the
parallel.batsfile runs, it checks to see ifparallelis available and will skip the test if not. Unfortunately, this only checks that there is aparallelcommand available -- not necessarily the correct one. If moreutils parallel is installed, the skip will not occur and the test will later fail in "libexec/bats-core/bats-exec-suite", when trying to runparallel --keep-order --jobs ...-- these CLI args are unknown to moreutilsparallel.This PR improves the check such that not any
parallelcommand will work. This check is extended by checking that theparallelcommand supports--version, which distinguishes between GNU parallel (supported) and moreutils parallel (unsupported).Fixes #672.