On 5/9/23 23:36, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports, suggestions, general
discussion for GNU patch. wrote:
On 5/9/23 11:00, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Seems to be a problem where a trivial Bourne shell for the user is not
>> good enough?
>
> What if you install GNU bash:
>
After all that disaster I had a thought : what about that silly and
poorly documented env var CONFIG_SHELL ?
bash-5.1$ echo $CONFIG_SHELL
/usr/pkg/bin/bash
bash-5.1$
Guess what ?
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU patch 2.7.6
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 44
# PASS: 42
# SKIP: 0
# XFAIL: 2
# FAIL: 0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
Gotta love the need for GNU bash for this to work. Makes no sense at all
for "patch".
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
Four decades in production systems.
