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
next prev 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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