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Re: [PATCH] test-lib: fix non-portable pattern bracket expressions

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 12, 2019, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID
<20190212003446.GF13301@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<20190212003018.GA1622@szeder.dev>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 01:30:18AM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
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> > I learn
> > another one. :) Thanks for fixing this, and for digging up the POSIX
> > reference.
> 
> I had to, that 16.04's dash worked, but neither dash in older LTS nor
> newer upstream version did was particularly puzzling.  Turns out that
> in 0.5.8-1 Ubuntu (Debian? dunno.) started to configure dash with
> '--enable-fnmatch', which makes it understand '^' as well.

Ah, doubly puzzling. It works fine in my Debian dash (but fnmatch was enabled in 0.5.8-1 there, too).

-Peff
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Message 12 of 13 in “test-lib: make '--stress' more bisect-friendly”
  1. test-lib: make '--stress' more bisect-friendlySZEDER Gábor, Feb 8, 2019
  2. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2019
  3. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2019
  4. SZEDER GáborFeb 8, 2019
  5. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2019
  6. SZEDER GáborFeb 8, 2019
  7. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2019
  8. test-lib: fix non-portable pattern bracket expressionsSZEDER Gábor, Feb 11, 2019
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2019
  10. Jeff KingFeb 11, 2019
  11. SZEDER GáborFeb 12, 2019
  12. Jeff KingFeb 12, 2019
  13. Carlo ArenasFeb 12, 2019

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