The call to test_skipped if makepath failed didn't work, presumably because

makepath is builtin and there's some problem with it causing /bin/sh to
exit on cygwin.  Parens around the call to makepath should help.

diff --git a/testsuite/longdir.test b/testsuite/longdir.test
index 89a2f7a..d016740 100644 (file)
--- a/testsuite/longdir.test
+++ b/testsuite/longdir.test
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ 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} || test_skipped "unable to create long directory"
+# 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}