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

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> Actually, Ubuntu seems to ship with dash as the default shell, and we had 
> quite some fallout from that change.

Well, part of it was really dash bugs, no? The whole "'shift' on an empty 
argument list" seemed to be a total and outright dash bug, and wasn't 
about relying on bash "features".

But we've had tons of issues with different spacing for "wc -l" etc, so 
yeah, the silly details matter even when there aren't outright bugs in 
tools.

> As for GNU tar, I think that this is easily fixable if you have access to 
> non-GNU tar.  We do not use tar _ever_, except for the test suite, to 
> verify that things are working as expected.
> 
> If you could put in some time to make the tests work, that would be 
> awesome.

Yeah, it would be a good thing to get rid of any bashisms, but to _keep_ 
it working somebody would then need to test every once in a while that it 
still works ;)

		Linus