From: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:28:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] test: Old shells and physical paths
Message-ID: <CAEvUa7=_iyXxaaRs3WtxZOy5PNnncG-iMAUNkCMLJ19ZtReqaw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmwx97f0o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Is "here is a nickel, get a better shell" an option?

It is, somewhat.  There is a pre-built port of GNU bash 2.03 for the
platform, but I was trying to see how far things could go with the
OS's supported shell before having to bring in unsupported
dependencies.  Unfortunately, I do not believe the OS fully conforms
to POSIX.1-2001 yet, so that means no "-P" or "-L" without going
rogue.

I'll carry test fixes for this platform locally.

Thanks.

David