From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
To: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: avoid full path to store test results
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:05:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5090E9D7.1010706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+EOSBmTjwmf+dO-dgU+rGQaVEKDZw7u9ujrh5jYZkPM2zisOA@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/30/2012 11:17 PM, Elia Pinto wrote:
> Thanks. I know that posix support these usages, but exists some
> traditional shell that not support it.
>
True, but those shells are not POSIX shells -- the major example that
comes to mind is the accursed Solaris /bin/sh.
Since Git assumes a POSIX shell in its scripts and testsuite, use of
any POSIX feature should be fine -- until someone can show a real-world
POSIX shell that (likely due to a bug) fails to grasp such feature, in
which case a "pragmatic" workaround is needed.
Oh, and BTW, there are talks (and mostly consensus) among the Autotools
developers to start requiring a POSIX shell in the configure scripts
and Makefile recipes in the near future:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2012-06/msg00009.html>
And also, related:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-08/msg00046.html>
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-10/msg00127.html>
>These are described in the
> autoconf manual, last time i have checked. As the construct ; export
> var = x should be portable, but it is not.
>
I don't think POSIX requires that to be portable.
> If this is important these days i don't know.
>
I hope the above helps to clarify the matter a little.
Regards,
Stefano
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 4:12 [PATCH] test-lib: avoid full path to store test results Felipe Contreras
2012-10-30 4:28 ` Jeff King
2012-10-30 4:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-10-30 4:46 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-30 16:02 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-10-31 1:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-31 1:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-10-31 2:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-31 2:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-10-31 18:02 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-31 18:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-02 13:17 ` Jeff King
2012-11-02 15:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-02 15:20 ` Jeff King
2012-10-30 6:58 ` Elia Pinto
2012-10-30 7:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-30 22:17 ` Elia Pinto
2012-10-31 9:05 ` Stefano Lattarini [this message]
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