From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:29:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] t3301: use test_must_fail instead of !
Message-ID: <e2b179460902170129s7ae613cehe237619be5e84936@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090215181818.GA2291@coredump.intra.peff.net>

2009/2/15 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:11:40PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
>> Is there a "bare minimum" POSIX shell that I can run the tests under,
>> to save myself such embarassment in the future?
>
> Using "dash" will catch bash-isms, and is pretty commonly available, I
> think.  But this behavior, IIRC, happens on FreeBSD's /bin/sh, which is
> derived from "ash" (so is "dash", but I they have long since diverged).
>
> There are even more quirks on more exotic systems, I expect, though I
> have to admit that I gave up on Solaris and just started using bash
> there. :)
>
> So I don't think there is a catch-all shell that will help you, but some
> "ash" variant is probably your best bet.

posh? http://packages.debian.org/lenny/posh

I've heard that if you unset POSIXLY_CORRECT it just sits there and
hums until you set it again. 8-)

Mike