Re: shell compatibility issues with SunOS 5.10

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy schrieb:
>> I did "make test" on a SunOS 5.10 and it failed. With the below patch,
>> only t7400 and t8005 kept failing. For the first case, t7400.5 failed
>> because extensive use of sed to normalize path in git-submodule.sh
>>
>>       # normalize path:
>>       # multiple //; leading ./; /./; /../; trailing /
>>       path=$(printf '%s/\n' "$path" |
>>               sed -e '
>>                       s|//*|/|g
>>                       s|^\(\./\)*||
>>                       s|/\./|/|g
>>                       :start
>>                       s|\([^/]*\)/\.\./||
>>                       tstart
>>                       s|/*$||
>>               ')
>
> There was a lengthy thread that lead to this version of the sed
> expression. Could you please tell what your sed has to say about it? It
> works even on AIX 4.3.3.

It says nothing. The result of "printf '%s\n' ./foo/bar | sed -e blah"
is just wrong, (i.e. "./" remains). I stripped down to "sed -e
's|^\(\./\)*||'", does not work. Probably due to \( \) pair. Skimmed
through sed manpage, seems no mention of bracket grouping.
-- 
Duy