Re: regression: "sh -c" change causes FTBFS

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 26/09/2011 22:44, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :
>> I beg to differ. ocamlbuild uses libc's system(), it would be insane to
>> change that. It seems that darcs is also affected. There might be also
>> more packages affected...
> 
> Got it --- I'll prepare an upload reverting the "sh -c" patch.
> 
> More understanding of what is actually happening would be welcome, of
> course.

It seems that darcs failure was unrelated. I digged a bit more, and
found some suspicious code in ocamlbuild:

  http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5371

I still don't understand why this corner case is triggered with this
patched dash, and I'd rather wait for more feedback before unreverting
the patch in dash.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane