From: Will N. <wil...@gm...> - 2007-03-13 21:49:56
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On 3/13/07, Mike Frysinger <va...@ge...> wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007, Will Newton wrote: > > Building LTP with a "pure" POSIX shell as /bin/sh currently breaks. On > > recent Ubuntu releases /bin/sh is dash instead of the more usual bash > > so LTP does not build out of the box on Ubuntu. The attached patch > > fixes the two problems I found. > > while i agree LTP should use /bin/sh for its shell scripts, i disagree that > the code in question is not POSIX :) I'm not an expert in shell programming so I couldn't say 100%, however it seems this issue has been brought up before w.r.t. dash and is a matter of some contention: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-standards/2003-June/000135.html |