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| author | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2020-05-03 07:38:50 +0000 |
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| committer | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2020-05-03 07:38:50 +0000 |
| commit | 920253b20a07cf852fe7c285a256385f79df1c43 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bbc66df556a54ad91bdb56ad96510d5bd97057e /regress | |
| parent | e9ef4c9d03a30687f85606b0a638183392c9c661 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-920253b20a07cf852fe7c285a256385f79df1c43.tar.gz | |
regress/tools-platform: document which shell pkgsrc uses
Diffstat (limited to 'regress')
| -rw-r--r-- | regress/tools-platform/sh.test | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/regress/tools-platform/sh.test b/regress/tools-platform/sh.test index 39b06b85dd0..be75a4307c1 100644 --- a/regress/tools-platform/sh.test +++ b/regress/tools-platform/sh.test @@ -1,12 +1,19 @@ #! /bin/sh -# $NetBSD: sh.test,v 1.2 2020/05/02 07:24:32 rillig Exp $ +# $NetBSD: sh.test,v 1.3 2020/05/03 07:38:50 rillig Exp $ # # Tests for the shell that is available as ${SH} in Makefiles. # -# Having a feature tested in this file does not mean it is available in -# Makefiles since devel/bmake may use a completely different shell for -# running its commands. For example on SunOS, devel/bmake typically -# uses /usr/xpg4/bin/sh while TOOLS_PLATFORM.sh is /bin/ksh. +# On platforms where /bin/sh is not good enough, pkgsrc may use +# different shells, depending on the exact situation. +# +# TOOLS_PLATFORM.sh (which ends up in SH as well) is used for running +# shell programs from mk/ and other programs that typically start with +# a #! line. +# +# The shell commands that are written in the targets of Makefiles (such +# as do-build, pre-configure) are run with a possibly different shell, +# see devel/bmake/Makefile. This shell is tested by regress/make-shell, +# which also uses this code. set -eu |