Re: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar

["David Frech" <david@nimblemachines.com>]

On 7/11/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> >> I'll see what I can do. As I'm planning on running git on both FreeBSD
> >> and DragonFly for the forseeable future, and plan to track git's
> >> evolution (running stable releases if not more bleeding-edge code), I
> >> can run the test suite every time I build a new git.
> >
> > If you want to, I can help you setting up a nightly cron job to fetch what
> > is the current "next", run the tests, and report failures by email.
>
> Wow.  Nightly builds of 'next' on various platforms would
> actually be quite useful, especially from non Linux and non bash
> world.

I found and fixed the shell issues. Once I've got a "fix" for tar I'll
send a patch. I think the BSD sh has a bug wrt to negating the return
code from a pipeline.

I'd be happy to do a nightly build on my DragonFly box, and that
should catch anything that also doesn't work for FreeBSD. The failure
modes were exactly the same - though the DFly box has an additional
iconv-related problem (with git-mailinfo) that I still haven't tracked
down...

Is there a canned script to get me started?

One issue is that my server is on dynamic IP, and my lame ISP (the
local telco) doesn't give me a proper SMTP relay - they want us to
send our mail via HTTP to MSN! Completely lame.

So sending mail can be an issue, if the receiver blocks mail from dynamic IPs.

- David

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