OpenSSH 7.7 t1 script breakage

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Randall S. Becker wrote:

> On April 12, 2018 7:14 PM, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > On 13 April 2018 at 08:29, Josh Soref <jsoref at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Randall S. Becker <rsbecker at nexbridge.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> -REGRESSTMP = "$(PWD)/regress"
> > >> +REGRESSTMP = `pwd`
> > >>
> > >>  tests interop-tests t-exec unit: regress-prep regress-binaries
> > >> $(TARGETS)
> > >
> > >
> > > It looks like the problem is that pwd is in uppercase, not so much the
> > > distinction between $() and ``.
> > 
> > I would not put too much effort into analysing this.  I made the original
> > change in
> > https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/3fd2d229 with good
> > intentions but there were a number of problems with it, the last of which
> > was discovered just before the release.  We decided that we would back it
> > out but given how close to release it was we deferred it.
> 
> Is there going to be a 7.7p2? I can't, in good conscience, go forward with
> 7.7p1 without it passing.

Not to fix a broken regress test, no.

-d