From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2256 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2013 20:47:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 2202 invoked by uid 55); 18 Aug 2013 20:47:54 -0000 From: "joseph at codesourcery dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/15831] Bad $expect passed from tst-fmon.sh to tst-fmon Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:47:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Version: 2.17 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: glibc_2.17 X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: joseph at codesourcery dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15831 --- Comment #4 from joseph at codesourcery dot com --- On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, carlos at redhat dot com wrote: > There are patches outstanding to glibc to allow it to build with a POSIX shell > and not require bash-specific extensions. > > I suggest looking through back months in libc-alpha, finding the patches that > were posted and adding them to the `Pending Reviews' list so we don't loose > track of them and get around to reviewing them: > http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Pending%20Reviews > > Note, you need to be in EditorGroup to edit the wiki: > http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/EditorGroup > > This would go a long way to fixing this problem. > > At present we only support /bin/bash, thus closing as RESOLVED/INVALID. I don't believe your answer justifies closing this bug, or is in any way relevant to this bug. Such patches as there are are about making installed bash scripts such as ldd into installed POSIX shell scripts. They are not about supporting building or testing glibc without bash available for scripts that require bash. And they are not about cases where scripts use /bin/sh but in fact require non-POSIX shell features - such cases are all bugs, for which two fixes are possible in each case (either explicitly require bash for the script, or make it work with the POSIX shell). This script (tst-fmon.sh) is an sh script. So, if it doesn't work with a POSIX shell, that's a bug, not an enhancement request, and not invalid, and should be fixed in one of those two ways. Now, the analysis in this bug does not appear to disclose whether in fact the script is doing anything non-POSIX, or whether the problem comes from a dash bug where dash fails to follow POSIX requirements - if the latter, the bug would indeed be invalid. But such an analysis of whether the differences between bash and dash reflect a dash bug or the script requiring something beyond POSIX is needed before the bug can be considered invalid. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.