Like system(), popen() calls /bin/sh, which may/may not be bash. Script when run on dash and encounters the line, yields:
exit: Illegal number: -1 checkbashisms report on script content: possible bashism (exit|return with negative status code): exit -1 Remove the bashism and use the more portable non-zero failure status code 1. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phill...@arm.com> --- v2: new for this remove bashisms series tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c b/tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c index 976e658e38dc..5e94857dfca2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c @@ -266,16 +266,16 @@ static const char *kinc_fetch_script = "#!/usr/bin/env sh\n" "if ! test -d \"$KBUILD_DIR\"\n" "then\n" -" exit -1\n" +" exit 1\n" "fi\n" "if ! test -f \"$KBUILD_DIR/include/generated/autoconf.h\"\n" "then\n" -" exit -1\n" +" exit 1\n" "fi\n" "TMPDIR=`mktemp -d`\n" "if test -z \"$TMPDIR\"\n" "then\n" -" exit -1\n" +" exit 1\n" "fi\n" "cat << EOF > $TMPDIR/Makefile\n" "obj-y := dummy.o\n" -- 2.17.1