expected test failures?

[Neal Becker]

On Friday 20 November 2009, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > On Friday 20 November 2009, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > > http://fpaste.org/O9WL/
> > >
> > > Does echo $COLUMN return something?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Benoit
> >
> > No.  Tests fail when run under emacs shell.  Tests passed when run under
> > konsole.  Neither has $COLUMN set.  This is rediculous!
> 
> does the following fixes it?
> 
> diff --git a/tests/run-tests.py b/tests/run-tests.py
> --- a/tests/run-tests.py
> +++ b/tests/run-tests.py
> @@ -785,6 +785,7 @@
>      os.environ['TZ'] = 'GMT'
>      os.environ["EMAIL"] = "Foo Bar <foo.bar at example.com>"
>      os.environ['CDPATH'] = ''
> +    os.environ['COLUMN'] = '80'
> 
>      global TESTDIR, HGTMP, INST, BINDIR, PYTHONDIR, COVERAGE_FILE
>      TESTDIR = os.environ["TESTDIR"] = os.getcwd()
> 

Yes (COLUMNS) fixes it.

Does it have to be so fragile?