Use tls rather than the OS's ls(1) so that we have more chance of

reproducible results.

Makefile.in

@@ -119,13 +119,13 @@ test: check
 # might lose in the future where POSIX diverges from old sh.
 
 check: all $(CHECK_PROGS)
-	POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 rsync_bin=`pwd`/rsync srcdir="$(srcdir)" $(srcdir)/runtests.sh
+	POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 TLS=`pwd`/tls rsync_bin=`pwd`/rsync srcdir="$(srcdir)" $(srcdir)/runtests.sh
 
 # This does *not* depend on building or installing: you can use it to
 # check a version installed from a binary or some other source tree,
 # if you want.
 
 installcheck: $(CHECK_PROGS)
-	POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 rsync_bin="$(bindir)/rsync" srcdir="$(srcdir)" $(srcdir)/runtests.sh
+	POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 TLS=`pwd`/tls rsync_bin="$(bindir)/rsync" srcdir="$(srcdir)" $(srcdir)/runtests.sh
 
 # TODO: Add 'dist' target; need to know which files will be included

testsuite/rsync.fns

@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ printmsg() {
 }
 
 
+rsync_ls_lR {
+    find "$@" -print | sort | xargs $TLS
+}
+
+
 ####################
 # Build test directories TO and FROM, with FROM full of files.
 
@@ -67,7 +72,7 @@ hands_setup() {
     mkdir ${FROM}/emptydir
 
     # a hundred lines of text or so
-    ls -lR ${srcdir} > ${FROM}/filelist
+    rsync_ls_lR ${srcdir} > ${FROM}/filelist
 
     # This might fail on systems that don't have -n
     echo $ECHO_N "This file has no trailing lf$ECHO_C" > ${FROM}/nolf
@@ -139,8 +144,8 @@ checkit() {
     echo "-------------">>${log}
     echo "check how the directory listings compare with diff:">>${log}
     echo "">>${log}
-    ( cd $2 ; ls -laR ) > ${TMP}/ls-from 2>>${log}
-    ( cd $3 ; ls -laR ) > ${TMP}/ls-to  2>>${log}
+    ( rsync_ls_lR "$2" ) > ${TMP}/ls-from 2>>${log}
+    ( rsync_ls_lR "$3" ) > ${TMP}/ls-to  2>>${log}
     diff -c ${TMP}/ls-from ${TMP}/ls-to >>${log} 2>&1 || failed=YES
     if [ -z "${failed}" ] ; then
 	rm $log