Re: shell compatibility issues with SunOS 5.10

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 6, 2009, 13:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20090506130750.GB11081@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090506055913.GA9701@dektop>

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:59:13PM +1000, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> I did "make test" on a SunOS 5.10 and it failed. With the below patch,
> only t7400 and t8005 kept failing. For the first case, t7400.5 failed
> because extensive use of sed to normalize path in git-submodule.sh

You may consider putting /usr/xpg4/bin in your PATH. It has much more sane versions of shell utilities (including a tail which supports "-n").

-Peff

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