Re: [LTP] [PATCH] Building with a POSIX shell

[Will N. <wil...@gm...>]

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