Re: [Libreoffice] small utility script to handle ../bin/g and similar commands

 On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tlillqvist@novell.com> wrote:
> > Personal, but valid. To test that you actually don't introduce bashisms
> > in a script you can simply set env variable POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 and then
> > the bash when invoked as /bin/sh will behave as a strict posix shell.
>
> Unfortunately that doesn't work well enough- Even with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 some bashisms work 
> without any warning message. Yeah, so one kinda is left ondering what the point with 
> POSIXLY_CORRECT is then.
>
> I found this useful script: 
> http://ftp.openbsd.org/ports/sysutils/checkbashisms/files/checkbashisms.pl . No doubt there might 
> be other similar ones.
>
> Another way is to actually develop a script using a #! line referring to some suitably limited 
> shell on your platform, and then change that to /bin/sh  before submitting s a patch or 
> committing to git.

 Just to clarify: I posted the script, as I thought it might be useful
 to someone else. But I did not intend to commit it to git (If I did,
 the post to the ML would have been in the form of a patch)

 Norbert.

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