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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/test-lib.sh: do not trust $SHELL
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:15:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120921221543.GA29100@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nLLEF7wnUhF0JUAZVP6GG3KHmuYSDZLPS7uGCZPfhV3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 03:04:50AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> > No, the #!-header is only information. When you run "make test" we
> > actually invoke the shell ourselves using $SHELL_PATH.
> 
> My SHELL_PATH is not set, and I can see SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL) in the
> Makefile.  Which shell is it supposed to point to? 

Something bourne compatible. If you are on a sane system, /bin/sh is
fine (and is the default).

> If you're proposing to use a variable that's only set in the Makefile
> in the test, you're not allowing users to run the test as a
> standalone- that's not a good change, is it?

It gets written to GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS, which should get pulled in by
test-lib.sh. There may be an ordering problem with the command line
parsing though.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-21 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-17 17:01 How do I run tests under Valgrind? Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-17 17:20 ` Jeff King
2012-09-17 17:23   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-17 17:35     ` Jeff King
2012-09-17 17:39       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-17 17:44         ` Jeff King
2012-09-17 17:55           ` Johannes Sixt
2012-09-17 17:57             ` Jeff King
2012-09-17 18:28           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
     [not found]           ` <CALkWK0mkBbY7dUyaZAqqKE3ZMfE_xU6em_KCOKM9nsTjUP-9pA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-17 18:29             ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 19:31               ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 19:58                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 20:13                   ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-21 20:17                     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 20:46                       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 20:49                     ` Jeff King
2012-09-22 13:03                       ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-22 17:47                         ` Jeff King
2012-09-22 18:20                           ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-22 20:24                           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21 20:52                     ` [PATCH] t/test-lib.sh: do not trust $SHELL Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 20:58                       ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 21:07                         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 21:12                           ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 21:34                             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 21:57                               ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-21 22:30                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-22  4:26                                   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-22  4:52                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-22  4:54                                       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-22  4:57                                         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-22 20:16                                           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-26  3:49                                             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 21:59                               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21 22:15                               ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-09-21 21:08                         ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-21 21:13                           ` Jeff King

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