From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:20:41 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I run tests under Valgrind?
Message-ID: <505E0179.1070106@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120922174741.GA6722@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 09/22/2012 07:47 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 03:03:58PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> 
>> On 09/21/2012 10:49 PM, Jeff King wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh. It sounds like setting $SHELL to zsh is really the problem, then. If
>>> it is not Bourne-compatible when called as "zsh", then it really should
>>> be called in a way that turns on compatibility mode (bash will do this
>>> when called as "sh", but you can also do it with "bash --posix").
>>>
>> AFAIK, if Zsh is called as "sh", it too will run in Bourne compatibility
>> mode; not sure how to force this compatibility from the command line though
>> (albeit I'd guess there is some way to do so).
>> [...]
> 
> Thanks for digging. I think this case, though, is that we were simply
> using the wrong variable ($SHELL instead of $SHELL_PATH). Your
> workarounds would help if somebody put zsh into $SHELL_PATH, but
> fundamentally that is not a sane thing to be doing, so I think we can
> just consider doing so user error and not bother working around it.
> 
FWIW, I agree.

Best regards,
  Stefano