[ng] tests: fix spurious failure due to non-POSIX shells
Seen on, e.g., Solaris 10.
* t/internals.tap: Here, by making sure a POSIX shell is used to
run the recipe in the Makefiles running our unit tests.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
diff --git a/t/internals.tap b/t/internals.tap
index eede974..cc997c3 100644
--- a/t/internals.tap
+++ b/t/internals.tap
@@ -37,11 +37,17 @@
cd T$i.d
{
echo 'include ../defn.mk'
+ # Make sure $(shell ...) invocations use a POSIX shell -- /bin/sh is
+ # borked and non-POSIX on a few systems, most notably Solaris 10.
+ # That has already caused spurious failures in the past.
+ echo "SHELL = ${SHELL}"
echo 'lower = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
echo 'upper = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
echo 'digits = 0123456789'
+ # The rest of the makefile come from the standard input passed to this
+ # function.
+ cat
} > Makefile
- cat >> Makefile
test_name=$1; shift
command_ok_ "$test_name" $MAKE ${1+"$@"} test
cd ..
