On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:56:29PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22 2018, Jeff King wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 02:17:01AM -0800, Carlo Arenas wrote: > >> PS. upstreaming the PERL_PATH fix is likely to be good to do soonish > >> as I presume at least all BSD might be affected, let me know if you > >> would rather me do that instead as I suspect we might be deadlocked > >> otherwise ;) > > > > Yeah, the $PERL_PATH thing is totally orthogonal, and should graduate > > separately. > > On the subject of orthagonal things: This test fails on AIX with /bin/sh > (but not /bin/bash) due to some interaction of ssize_b100dots and the > build_option function. On that system: > > $ ./git version --build-options > git version 2.20.0-rc1 > cpu: 00FA74164C00 > no commit associated with this build > sizeof-long: 4 > sizeof-size_t: 4 > > But it somehow ends up in the 'die' condition in that case statement. I > dug around briefly but couldn't find the cause, probably some limitation > in the shell constructs it supports. Just leaving a note about this... That's weird. The functions involved are pretty vanilla. I'd suspect something funny with the sed invocation: build_option () { git version --build-options | sed -ne "s/^$1: //p" } but that's the one thing that shouldn't be dependent on the shell in use. Can you manually replicate the shell commands to see where it goes wrong? -Peff