On Monday 06 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:22:51PM CEST: > > What about my pending patch "Testsuite: use $SHELL to run tests > > which are shell scripts."? > > I'll reply in that thread. > > > That should ensure that the tests are run with > > a decent shell. Maybe we could then hack Automake's configure.ac > > to ensure that configure reject shells exhibiting the trap bug. > > What is the status of ksh on Tru64/OSF 5.1? Is it as broek Ehm... s/broek/broken/, sorry. > > as /bin/sh, or is it usable for our purposes? > > It does not have this particular issue. And yes, that might be a > good strategy indeed; but it shouldn't be developed in the > pot-primary branch (only maybe merged in later). I agree, and I wasn't proposing to do so. Especially considering that the particular patch we were reviewing in this sub-thread is to be dropped as useless.
Regards, Stefano
