I wrote:
> Given the last sentence in the POSIX 2008 text, I think unconditionally
> munging PWD as you're proposing is a bit risky. What I suggest is that
> we add code to set PWD only if it's not set, which is most easily done
> in test.sh itself, along the lines of
> # Very old shells may not set PWD for us.
> if [ x"$PWD" = x"" ]; then
> PWD=`pwd -P`
> fi
Oh, wait, scratch that: the build logs you showed clearly indicate that
the test is running with temp_root set to
/export/home/pgfarmer/build-farm/tmp_check
which implies that PWD was not empty but "/export/home/pgfarmer/build-farm".
So the above wouldn't fix it.
A likely hypothesis is that the buildfarm script was invoked using some
modern shell that did set PWD, but then test.sh is being executed (in a
much lower directory) by some SUSv2-era shell that doesn't.
I'm still kind of afraid to explicitly change PWD in a modern shell,
though. Perhaps the right thing is just not to rely on PWD at all
in test.sh, but replace $PWD with `pwd -P`. (I did check that this
utility is required by SUSv2.)
regards, tom lane