hg-1.4 test, solaris: 5 errors

[James C. McPherson]

Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> 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.

Does the test output change if you are using bash v3 rather
than bash v4? We recently saw several issues logged when
build snv_126 was released, because the behaviour of
bash v4 differs from bash v3 in several areas.


James C. McPherson
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Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
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