From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:22:24 GMT Subject: Re: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Actually, Ubuntu seems to ship with dash as the default shell, and we had > quite some fallout from that change. Well, part of it was really dash bugs, no? The whole "'shift' on an empty argument list" seemed to be a total and outright dash bug, and wasn't about relying on bash "features". But we've had tons of issues with different spacing for "wc -l" etc, so yeah, the silly details matter even when there aren't outright bugs in tools. > 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. Yeah, it would be a good thing to get rid of any bashisms, but to _keep_ it working somebody would then need to test every once in a while that it still works ;) Linus