hg-1.4 test, solaris: 5 errors

Frank Kingswood frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk
Mon Nov 9 07:53:54 CST 2009


rupert.thurner wrote:
> On 8 Nov., 18:47, "rupert.thurner" <rupert.thur... at gmail.com> wrote:

> you think a change from /bin/sh to /bin/bash in all tests would be
> acceptable to avoid such errors for once and forever?

In my opinion it would be better to make the scripts that run /bin/sh 
compatible with a strict POSIX shell, removing bashisms. This is usually not 
a big deal.

Not everyone running Linux will have bash as /bin/sh. For example, Debian and 
derivatives have dash as /bin/sh to improve boot times and memory use.

Frank


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