From 9ac724c1df34e9dd56e2e35566b0cf81a491e8e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:40:15 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] They test with output to a tty didn't work under make
 distcheck.  Tried to work around it by writing directly to
 /dev/tty, if that's available.

---
 test/pick/test-pick |   24 +++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/pick/test-pick b/test/pick/test-pick
index 2396811..ba7c18b 100755
--- a/test/pick/test-pick
+++ b/test/pick/test-pick
@@ -97,18 +97,24 @@ cat >$expected <<EOF
 EOF
 check $expected $actual
 
-# Produce no standard output if no messages match and standard output
-# is a tty.  To test that, move stderr to stdout.
-echo `pick -subject message.3 -and -from Test4 >&2-` >$actual
-cat >$expected <<EOF
 
-EOF
-check $expected $actual
+set +e
+
+if test -w /dev/tty; then
+  # Produce no standard output if no messages match and standard
+  # output is a tty.  To test that, move stderr to stdout and
+  # write the output directly to the tty.  If there is output,
+  # it probably won't be captured, but pretend that it would be.
+  output=`pick -subject message.3 -and -from Test4 >&2- >/dev/tty`
+  run_test "echo $output" ''
+else
+  echo "$0: skip tty test because can't write to /dev/tty"
+fi
 
 # Also, check that the exit status is 1.
-set +e
-pick -subject message.3 -and -from Test4 2>/dev/null
+pick -subject message.3 -and -from Test4 >/dev/null 2>&1
 run_test "echo $?" '1'
+
 set -e
 
 # Test -cc.
@@ -137,8 +143,8 @@ pick -after '28 Sep 2008 00:00:00' >$actual 2>&1
 cat >$expected <<EOF
 11
 EOF
-
 check $expected $actual
+
 # Invert exit status so execution doesn't terminate due to -e.
 ! pick -after '29 Sep 2008 00:00:00' >$actual 2>/dev/null
 cat >$expected <<EOF
-- 
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