Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Bashisms in tests

[Cameron Patrick]

mlh wrote:

> > My vote is to just require bash.  Make it explicit with #!/bin/bash
> > if you like.

Note that you'd have to require GNU coreutils as well as bash to get
it to work on non-Linux systems.  This seems rather excessive to me.
Writing the tests in Python would be neat, but do is it really worth
it to introduce a Python dependency just for the test suite?

Miles Bader wrote:

> Instead, why not just fix the problems as they're reported?

I've mostly done this for Bazaar, and suspect that most of the changes
would replay cleanly onto a tla tree.

address@hidden/bazaar--posix-sh--1.2

Patches 1--10 make it work on Debian machines (where /bin/sh is dash)
and 11--15 are for NetBSD userland compatibility.  If I get time I
might test it on some of the wackier machines I have access to at the
UCC (including IRIX, Tru64, Mac OS and Solaris).

Cameron.

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