Re: Debian, POSIX-compliant /bin/sh, and the LSB

To: haydena@austin.ibm.com
Cc: lsb-test@lists.linuxbase.org
Subject: Re: Debian, POSIX-compliant /bin/sh, and the LSB
From: Matt Taggart <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:54:03 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 20010927195403.EA99937C8D@carmen.fc.hp.com>
In-reply-to: Message from Arnold Hayden <ahayden@eclipse.ltc.austin.ibm.com> of "Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:23:57 CDT." <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.33.0109271417490.4254-100000@eclipse.ltc.austin.ibm.com>
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.33.0109271417490.4254-100000@eclipse.ltc.austin.ibm.com>

Arnold Hayden writes...

> Unfortunately, our test suite doesn't build with ash used as /bin/sh.
> Changing the symlink for /bin/sh to bash fixes the build problem,

Sounds like maybe bashisms(or other non-POSIX things) in the test suite(which 
is surprising given it's history). Maybe you could post the specific problems?

Next time I run the test suite I'll try it too, and report what I find.

-- 
Matt Taggart        Linux Development Lab
taggart@fc.hp.com   HP Linux Systems Operation

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