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

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 04:58:11PM CEST:
>> On 09/08/2010 08:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> >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.
>
> sh and ksh on IRIX 6.5 also produce output, but at least both now
> prepend '+ ', and ineligible bsh also prints 'P=1'.  No bash in
> /usr/bin here.

Thanks, Ralf.

Irix 6.5 is slated to have support at least until December 2013,
so I may be stuck...

Hmm... an alternative solution is simply to disable the
VERBOSE=yes -> "set -x" code on offending systems.
That will make debugging things a little harder (when using
the broken shells), but that's still better than the alternative.