Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > On 2023-07-18 08:45, Sam James wrote: >> &> is a bashism and causes various tests to fail with /bin/sh as non-bash >> (e.g. dash). > > Thanks, I installed that, with a "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: true" > line in the commit message (rather than with a "Signed-off-by:" line) > as per the usual Gnu rules.
Thanks. > > This problem has been in GNU Tar for a decade. On my Ubuntu 23.04 > platform, which says it has dash 0.5.12-2ubuntu1, the tests didn't > fail, though they wrongly didn't test either. Is your 'dash' newer and > pickier? My dash is 0.5.12 as well. I suspect it was a series of unfortunate events - on occasion, I change my /bin/sh back to Bash temporarily to confirm/deny a bug is related, and I sometimes forget to change it back immediately. Someone reported https://bugs.gentoo.org/738826 in 2020 at least which I didn't spot until now, so I think you're right that this isn't new at all, and just nobody noticed it until now. cheers!
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