hg-1.4 test, solaris: 5 errors

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:53:54PM +0000, Frank Kingswood wrote:
> 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.

It already contains no bashism since we run it on ubuntu very often. But
maybe there is indeed a way to make it use bash on solaris (and /bin/sh
everywhere else) if it helps.

regards,

Benoit

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