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Re: Use bash to run nptl/tst-tls6.sh
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:31:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: Use bash to run nptl/tst-tls6.sh
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1210252041110.30538@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> The test nptl/tst-tls6.sh uses brace expansion so may not work with
> all POSIX shells. This patch marks it as a bash script and arranges
> for it to be run with $(BASH). (A more complicated patch to the
> script, to avoid the use of brace expansion, was in the first version
> of the cross-testing patch - I then removed it as not logically part
> of cross-testing - and I can provide an updated version of that patch
> to the script if preferred, but running the script with bash seems
> simpler.)
You may wish to simply post the WIP patch that does this, and then
link to the mailing list entry from the "Small Projects" page[1] on the
wiki. Since such a patch would be a good small project for someone.
Cheers,
Carlos.
[1] http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SmallProjects