From: "David Frech" <nimblemachines@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:39:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7154c5c60707101939sc921b07wef1d14f85086947d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I've built git on several BSD (FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD) systems, and
while it builds fine on both platforms, the test suite *fails* on
both.
I tracked most of the problems down to dependencies on bash and GNU
tar. I'm not sure yet what the specific differences are between BSD's
/bin/sh and bash (the two are separate in the BSD world), but it's
obvious what the problem is with tar: the git-archive test parses
datestamps printed out by tar, and the two tar's print datestamps
differently.
If I set SHELL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/bash and TAR=gtar (the name of GNU
tar on BSD systems) I am able to get thru all the tests on FreeBSD
(this is with a checkout of the v1.5.2.3 tag).
On DragonFly there is another problem that I have not yet tracked
down. git-mailinfo fails on 0004 - it fails to extract *anything* from
the message.
Anyone running Linux or Mac OSX won't see these problems, because on
both platforms /bin/sh == bash and tar == GNU tar.
Cheers,
- David
--
If I have not seen farther, it is because I have stood in the
footsteps of giants.
next reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 2:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-11 2:39 David Frech [this message]
2007-07-11 2:49 ` test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-11 3:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 4:08 ` David Frech
2007-07-11 11:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-11 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-11 21:33 ` David Frech
2007-07-11 21:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-11 21:57 ` David Frech
2007-07-11 21:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
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