Re: [PATCH] init.sh: disqualify shells for which set -x corrupts stderr

[Eric Blake]

On 09/08/2010 08:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > If bash is manually installed, then things are okay.  But all existing
> > shells on a bare-bones installation output trace information.
>
> If that happens, the result will be that each init.sh-using test
> will be skipped.

Fair enough - someone with enough incentive to test on that type of 
platform can resolve the issue by manually installing a better shell, 
particularly if the skip message hints at that being the problem.

> Polluting our code, even "mere" tests, solely to accommodate an
> inferior or old system is hard for me to justify.  I think it scales
> better simply to eliminate the offending shells -- then we avoid
> the constant overhead of auditing for yet another portability nit.

Seems reasonable - give ourselves the guarantee now, and if it proves to 
strict, then back it out and do the audit then, rather than spending 
time on the audit now.

> Besides, isn't Irix 5.x approaching effective museum-only status?

Probably, but I don't (yet) have access to Irix 6.5 to test a newer 
version of that platform.

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