On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:16:42PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 20:49 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:29:35PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 07:59 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > Someone has to have seen this already, but just in case...
> > > >
> > > > LTP fails to build on systems for which /bin/sh really is an old-style
> > > > Bourne shell (which by the way is what /bin/sh is defined to be).
> > > > The following patch fixes at least one instance of this.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > Hi paul,
> > >
> > > Thanks for highlighting this issue. But we will not resort this to point
> > > to /bin/bash as in many Linux system /bin/sh points to some other
> > > Posix-compliant Shell(s). However i agree that on most systems it points
> > > to /bin/bash. We would encourage you to change the link /bin/sh to a
> > > shell of your choice.
> >
> > Which I did do. But it kind of defeats ABAT's LTP feature, not?
>
> Thatś true. But LTP is being used by people outside IBM as well. We may
> need to sync with others in the community as well.
So everyone wants LTP to fail one Linux distros that happen to make
/bin/sh be a real Bourne shell? Sounds like this kind of defeats the
purpose of testing...
Thanx, Paul
> Regards--
> Subrata
>
> >
> > Thanx, Paul
> >
> > > Regards--
> > > Subrata
> > >
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > diff -urpNa -X ../../../dontdiff
> > > > ltp-full-20080131/testcases/network/generate.sh
> > > > ltp-full-20080131-bash/testcases/network/generate.sh
> > > > --- ltp-full-20080131/testcases/network/generate.sh 2008-07-10
> > > > 07:26:04.000000000 -0700
> > > > +++ ltp-full-20080131-bash/testcases/network/generate.sh
> > > > 2008-07-10 07:22:30.000000000 -0700
> > > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > > > -#!/bin/sh
> > > > +#!/bin/bash
> > > > #
> > > > # Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2001
> > > > #
> > > >
> > >
>
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