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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 12 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | build-aux/vc-list-files | 4 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +2009-07-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + vc-list-files: avoid failure when /bin/sh is dash + * build-aux/vc-list-files: Avoid a shell portability problem with dash. + On some Debian based systems, /bin/sh is a symlink to dash, and running + this command would omit the "/" following each 'tests' prefix: + dash -x build-aux/vc-list-files -C . tests + That is because bash and dash work differently: + $ for i in bash dash; do $i -c 'a=odd; a=ok b=$a; echo '$i' $b'; done + bash ok + dash odd + 2009-07-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> dup2-tests: test previous patch diff --git a/build-aux/vc-list-files b/build-aux/vc-list-files index 9376e3dc2f..cc716e9c35 100755 --- a/build-aux/vc-list-files +++ b/build-aux/vc-list-files @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # List version-controlled file names. # Print a version string. -scriptversion=2009-04-25.13; # UTC +scriptversion=2009-07-21.16; # UTC # Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ test "x$dir" = x && dir=. if test -d .git; then test "x$dir" = x. \ && dir= sed_esc= \ - || dir="$dir/" sed_esc=`echo "$dir"|sed 's,\([\\/]\),\\\\\1,g'` + || { dir="$dir/"; sed_esc=`echo "$dir"|env sed 's,\([\\/]\),\\\\\1,g'`; } # Ignore git symlinks - either they point into the tree, in which case # we don't need to visit the target twice, or they point somewhere # else (often into a submodule), in which case the content does not |