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Re: [PATCH] "test" in Solaris' /bin/sh does not support -e

From
DSDennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Date
Jun 26, 2006, 10:04 UTC
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<20060626100402.G5761a3ea@leonov.stosberg.net>
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Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> A lot of bashisms have been removed from the shell scripts since
> that SHELL_PATH override was added in September 2005; I will have a
> look whether it's still necessary.

Solaris is really horrible sometimes. "/bin/sh" is linked to "/usr/bin/sh". The manual sh(1) reads:

     The /usr/bin/sh utility is a  command  programming  language
     that executes commands read from a terminal or a file.
     The /usr/xpg4/bin/sh utility is a standards compliant shell.

Argh! Why don't they put their "standards compliant" shell to /bin/sh? The current one doesn't even support the $( )-style command substitution, so making the scripts run with that shell would be _really_ ugly.

Regards, Dennis

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Message 10 of 19 in “Git.pm: Support for perl/ being built by a different compiler”
  1. Git.pm: Support for perl/ being built by a different compilerPetr Baudis, Jun 25, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2006
  3. Petr BaudisJun 25, 2006
  4. Dennis StosbergJun 26, 2006
  5. Solaris needs inclusion of signal.h for signal()Dennis Stosberg, Jun 26, 2006
  6. Fix pkt-line.h to compile with a non-GCC compilerDennis Stosberg, Jun 26, 2006
  7. "test" in Solaris' /bin/sh does not support -eDennis Stosberg, Jun 26, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2006
  9. Dennis StosbergJun 26, 2006
  10. Dennis StosbergJun 26, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2006
  12. Makefile fix for SolarisDennis Stosberg, Jun 26, 2006
  13. Add possibility to pass CFLAGS and LDFLAGS specific to the perl subdirDennis Stosberg, Jun 26, 2006
  14. Petr BaudisJul 1, 2006
  15. Dennis StosbergJun 26, 2006
  16. Dennis StosbergJun 26, 2006
  17. Thomas GlanzmannJun 26, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2006
  19. Dennis StosbergJun 26, 2006

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