From: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:04:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "test" in Solaris' /bin/sh does not support -e
Message-ID: <20060626100402.G5761a3ea@leonov.stosberg.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060626094211.G3b49c5c3@leonov.stosberg.net>

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