Re: [PATCH 1/4] test: Add target test-lint-shell-syntax

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

> At least on my system the following combination works:
>
> git diff
> diff --git a/t/Makefile b/t/Makefile
> index f8f8c54..391a5ca 100644
> --- a/t/Makefile
> +++ b/t/Makefile
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
>  
>  #GIT_TEST_OPTS = --verbose --debug
>  SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL)
> -PERL_PATH ?= /usr/bin/perl
> +PERL_PATH = "/Users/tb/projects/git/tb/pe rl"

I do not think that will fly.  Having that in the main Makefile
where the existing users of the symbol relies on it without any
surrounding quotes, e.g.

$(patsubst %.perl,%,$(SCRIPT_PERL)): % : %.perl GIT-VERSION-FILE
	$(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ $@+ && \
	INSTLIBDIR=`MAKEFLAGS= $(MAKE) -C perl -s --no-print-directory instlibdir` && \
	sed -e '1{' \
	    -e '	s|#!.*perl|#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)|' \
	    -e '	h' \
	    -e '	s=.*=use lib (split(/$(pathsep)/, $$ENV{GITPERLLIB} || "'"$$INSTLIBDIR"'"));=' \
	    -e '	H' \
	    -e '	x' \
	    -e '}' \
	    -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \
	    $@.perl >$@+ && \
	chmod +x $@+ && \
	mv $@+ $@

where $(PERL_PATH_SQ) is defined to replace each ' in $(PERL_PATH)
with '\'' so that '$(PERL_PATH_SQ)' becomes a shell-safe way to
quote the value of PERL_PATH without quotes, your definition will
look for a relative path that is inside a directory named '"'
(that's a single double-quote).