[patch]: testsuite: run bash instead of sh when using brace expansion
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Wed May 15 14:55:00 GMT 2013
>>>>> ">" == Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> writes:
>> I had some testsuite failures in gdb.dwarf2/dw2-dir-file-name.exp,
>> because /bin/sh on my system doesn't support brace expansion.
>> I'm using Debian, where /bin/sh is in fact dash. I tried /bin/sh on
>> Solaris (9), too, and it also doesn't support brace expansion.
>> This patch changes dw2-dir-file-name.exp to use bash instead of sh.
>> Ok to commit?
I think it would be better to rewrite this code to compute the list of
filenames in Tcl, then just send a simple command. It seems to me that
one can't rely on bash existing on the remote system.
Tom
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