Re: [RFC] test: Old shells and physical paths

2012-12-20 Thread David Michael
Hi, On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:01 AM, David Aguilar dav...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know if the differences are relegated to cd, or do other common commands such as awk, grep, sed, mktemp, expr, etc. have similar issues? There are almost certainly going to be incompatibilities with other

Re: [RFC] test: Old shells and physical paths

2012-12-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
David Michael fedora@gmail.com writes: In working on a port, I have to tolerate an ancient shell. The cd and pwd commands don't understand the -P flag for physical paths, as some tests use. The biggest offender is cd -P causing a failure in t/test-lib.sh (since 1bd9c64), which is

Re: [RFC] test: Old shells and physical paths

2012-12-19 Thread David Michael
Hi, On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Is here is a nickel, get a better shell an option? It is, somewhat. There is a pre-built port of GNU bash 2.03 for the platform, but I was trying to see how far things could go with the OS's supported shell before

Re: [RFC] test: Old shells and physical paths

2012-12-19 Thread David Aguilar
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:28 PM, David Michael fedora@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Is here is a nickel, get a better shell an option? It is, somewhat. There is a pre-built port of GNU bash 2.03 for the platform, but I