changeset 11728:91887b0a2a0f

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
author Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
date Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:24:22 +0200
parents b4078ab49851
children 96bc5f7886d1
files ChangeLog build-aux/vc-list-files
diffstat 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -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
--- 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 @@
 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