Re: new snapshot available: grep-3.4-almost.26-5419

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/17/20 10:22 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> all the SKIPs say:
> backref: skipped test: failed to find an adequate shell

Can you help investigate why init.sh does that? You can start by running the 
attached shell script on your platform. What does it output?

You may need to alter its list of shells toward the end if you're messing with 
$CONFIG_SHELL or $SHELL or whatever in your setup.

On my Ubuntu 18.04.5 platform, this script outputs:

sh: 10: local: 1: bad variable name
sh score=2
/bin/sh: 10: local: 1: bad variable name
/bin/sh score=2
bash score=10
dash: 10: local: 1: bad variable name
dash score=2
./test-shell: 28: ./test-shell: zsh: not found
zsh score=127
./test-shell: 28: ./test-shell: pdksh: not found
pdksh score=127

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