Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v3 0/5] add shellcheck support

["Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>]

On Thu May 2, 2024 at 7:34 PM AEST, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 02/05/2024 10.56, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:23:22AM GMT, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> On 01/05/2024 13.29, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >>> This is based on upstream directly now, not ahead of the powerpc
> >>> series.
> >>
> >> Thanks! ... maybe you could also rebase the powerpc series on this now? (I
> >> haven't forgotten about it, just did not find enough spare time for more
> >> reviewing yet)
> >>
> >>> Since v2:
> >>> - Rebased to upstream with some patches merged.
> >>> - Just a few comment typos and small issues (e.g., quoting
> >>>     `make shellcheck` in docs) that people picked up from the
> >>>     last round.
> >>
> >> When I now run "make shellcheck", I'm still getting an error:
> >>
> >> In config.mak line 16:
> >> AR=ar
> >> ^-- SC2209 (warning): Use var=$(command) to assign output (or quote to
> >> assign string).
> > 
> > I didn't see this one when testing. I have shellcheck version 0.9.0.
>
> I'm also using 0.9.0 (from Fedora). Maybe we've got a different default config?

I have 0.10.0 from Debian with no changes to config defaults and no
warning.

> Anyway, I'm in favor of turning this warning of in the config file, it does 
> not seem to be really helpful in my eyes. What do you think?

Maybe it would be useful. I don't mind quoting strings usually, although
for this kind of pattern it's a bit pointless and config.mak is also
Makefile so that has its own issues. Maybe just disable it for this
file?

Thanks,
Nick