tests/qemu-iotests: Rework the checks and spots using GNU sed

Instead of failing the iotests if GNU sed is not available (or skipping
them completely in the check-block.sh script), it would be better to
simply skip the bash-based tests that rely on GNU sed, so that the other
tests could still be run. Thus we now explicitely use "gsed" (either as
direct program or as a wrapper around "sed" if it's the GNU version)
in the spots that rely on the GNU sed behavior. Statements that use the
"-r" parameter of sed have been switched to use "-E" instead, since this
switch is supported by all sed versions on our supported build hosts
(most also support "-r", but macOS' sed only supports "-E"). With all
these changes in place, we then can also remove the sed checks from the
check-block.sh script, so that "make check-block" can now be run on
systems without GNU sed, too.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220216125454.465041-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/tests/check-block.sh b/tests/check-block.sh
index 18f7433901..f59496396c 100755
--- a/tests/check-block.sh
+++ b/tests/check-block.sh
@@ -48,18 +48,6 @@ if LANG=C bash --version | grep -q 'GNU bash, version [123]' ; then
     skip "bash version too old ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
 fi
 
-if ! (sed --version | grep 'GNU sed') > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-    if ! command -v gsed >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-        skip "GNU sed not available ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
-    fi
-else
-    # Double-check that we're not using BusyBox' sed which says
-    # that "This is not GNU sed version 4.0" ...
-    if sed --version | grep -q 'not GNU sed' ; then
-        skip "BusyBox sed not supported ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
-    fi
-fi
-
 cd tests/qemu-iotests
 
 # QEMU_CHECK_BLOCK_AUTO is used to disable some unstable sub-tests