From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:49:35 GMT
Subject: Re: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707110347580.4047@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7154c5c60707101939sc921b07wef1d14f85086947d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, David Frech wrote:

> Anyone running Linux or Mac OSX won't see these problems, because on 
> both platforms /bin/sh == bash and tar == GNU tar.

Actually, Ubuntu seems to ship with dash as the default shell, and we had 
quite some fallout from that change.

As for GNU tar, I think that this is easily fixable if you have access to 
non-GNU tar.  We do not use tar _ever_, except for the test suite, to 
verify that things are working as expected.

If you could put in some time to make the tests work, that would be 
awesome.

Ciao,
Dscho