I feel a little dirty doing this, but the way the code was before, redo
almost always picked bash as the shell. bash is way too overpowered
and this led to bashisms in do scripts unnecessarily. The two failures
in dash are things that I would really like to have, but they haven't
materialized after 6 years, so I guess we should be realistic.
To appropriately penalize bash for asking for trouble, I added a
warning about [ 1 == 1 ] syntax being valid (as opposed to the POSIX
correct [ 1 = 1 ]). This allows dash to be selected ahead of bash.
I also moved 'sh' to the end of the list, because although it's the
weakest shell on some systems, on other systems it's just bash. And I
put zsh in front of bash, because fewer people have zsh and we want
them to test zsh.
If the error message only triggered a shelltest warning instead of a
failure, then they're harmless, so we might as well silence them when
running 'redo test' (which runs t/shelltest.do, which enables
SHELLTEST_QUIET). We still want to print them when actually testing out
shelltest.od, though, to help with debugging the script.
If y contains a * character, it's a case-esac style wildcard unless it's in
"" or '', which tells it to match a literal *. But in dash/busybox, the ''
quoting doesn't actually work, only "" does.
Since there's a workaround - just always use "" quoting - it's not that
fatal. If the "" quoting doesn't work, then we'll make it fail.
It seems 'set -e' doesn't quite work, in some shells, in that case.
Eric Kow wrote:
> I saw this warning, by the way:
> redo t/shelltest
> warning: 94
> cd: 271: can't cd to /opt/redo-0.05/t/space
> rmdir: failed to remove pace home dir': No such file or directory
> warning: 111
Supposedly it's not POSIX, but every shell I have seems to support it, so
let's just reject any that don't. And like magic, anybody using redo can
now count on the 'local' builtin working.
This fails on ash, dash, and busybox sh (for now). But it's kind of
important since $HOME often has spaces on Win32. I hope dash will be fixed
relatively soon.
I downgraded it to a warning since on Unix, this probably isn't a problem.
This includes a fairly detailed test of various known shell bugs from the
autoconf docs.
The idea here is that if redo works on your system, you should be able to
rely on a *good* shell to run your .do files; you shouldn't have to work
around zillions of bugs like autoconf does.
