Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use SHELL_PATH

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:46:05 -0700

"Sverre Rabbelier" <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:31 AM, SungHyun Nam <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: SungHyun Nam <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  t/Makefile |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/t/Makefile b/t/Makefile
>> index a778865..0d65ced 100644
>> --- a/t/Makefile
>> +++ b/t/Makefile
>> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ clean:
>>        $(RM) -r 'trash directory' test-results
>>
>>  aggregate-results:
>> -       ./aggregate-results.sh test-results/t*-*
>> +       '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./aggregate-results.sh test-results/t*-*
>>
>>  # we can test NO_OPTIMIZE_COMMITS independently of LC_ALL
>>  full-svn-test:
>> --
>> 1.5.6.3.350.g6c11a
>
> It is not clear to me what this patch does, there is no justification
> in the commit msg either. Instead you say what is being done, which we
> can see from the commit diff. Please clarify?

It wants to make sure that the shell specified from the toplevel Makefile
(or from make command line) is used to run the aggregation script.  It is
often necessary when platform /bin/sh is not quite POSIX (e.g. the script
in question uses arithmetic expansion "$(( $var1 + $var2 ))").

Just saying "Use specified shell to run shell scripts" on the title line
would be sufficient, but I wonder if this is the only remaining place...