tests: avoid spurious failure of the symlink test

* tests/symlink: Ignore spurious "Binary file d matches" on
systems for which reading from a directory actually succeeds.
Reported by Bruno Haible and Nelson Beebe.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/symlink b/tests/symlink
index 012d8f8f..071160bc 100755
--- a/tests/symlink
+++ b/tests/symlink
@@ -57,7 +57,13 @@ do
     esac
 
     printf "$exp" >exp || framework_failure_
-    LC_ALL=C sort grepout >out || fail=1
+
+    LC_ALL=C sort grepout >out-t || fail=1
+
+    # Ignore "Binary file d matches" on systems for which
+    # reading from a directory actually succeeds.
+    grep -v Binary out-t > out; case $? in 0|1) ;; *) fail=1;; esac
+
     compare exp out || fail=1
   done
 done