X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/501972bf72bea1b291afd50e1752cbb007fcd0b6..a1cc591b29ebcf3ee6e4d3c65bb0855a7a7f30ea:/testsuite/longdir.test

diff --git a/testsuite/longdir.test b/testsuite/longdir.test
index 92f9ecfd..d016740f 100644
--- a/testsuite/longdir.test
+++ b/testsuite/longdir.test
@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@
 #
 # This program is distributable under the terms of the GNU GPL (see COPYING)
 
-
 . "$suitedir/rsync.fns"
 
+# set -x
+
 hands_setup
 
 LONGDIR=${FROM}/This-is-a-directory-with-a-stupidly-long-name-created-in-an-attempt-to-provoke-an-error-found-in-2.0.11-that-should-hopefully-never-appear-again-if-this-test-does-its-job/This-is-a-directory-with-a-stupidly-long-name-created-in-an-attempt-to-provoke-an-error-found-in-2.0.11-that-should-hopefully-never-appear-again-if-this-test-does-its-job/This-is-a-directory-with-a-stupidly-long-name-created-in-an-attempt-to-provoke-an-error-found-in-2.0.11-that-should-hopefully-never-appear-again-if-this-test-does-its-job
 
-makepath ${LONGDIR}
+# the parens around makepath shouldn't be necessary but appear to be
+#  needed on cygwin, presumably because makepath is a /bin/sh function
+(makepath ${LONGDIR}) || test_skipped "unable to create long directory"
 date > ${LONGDIR}/1
 ls -la / > ${LONGDIR}/2
 checkit "$RSYNC --delete -avH ${FROM}/ ${TO}" ${FROM}/ ${TO}