On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 08:26:27AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Guix' testsuite uses the non-POSIX bashism `type -P guile` in > tests/guix-packages.sh which causes a test failure when using > Dash to provide /bin/sh instead of Bash. Additionally gnu/local.mk uses > brace expansion which is not part of POSIX and does not work on Dash. > > When building Guix on Parabola GNU/Linux-libre modified to use Dash as > /bin/sh,[1] this causes the Guix build to fail. For building, the guix > 0.11.0 package from AUR[2] was used. The attached “patch” allows for a > successful build but is not what we want. > > Guix should probably not use bashisms in its Makefile includes and > either not use bashisms in its test suite or make sure the test suite is > executed explicitly with Bash and not /bin/sh.
About two years have passed on this bug report without comment. Is it a "wontfix"?
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