Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/12] t/Makefile: make "check-meson" work with Dash

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 16:37:49 +0100

Hi,

Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> The "check-meson" target uses process substitution to check whether
> extracted contents from "meson.build" match expected contents. Process
> substitution is unportable though and thus the target will fail when
> using for example Dash.
>
> Fix this by writing data into a temporary directory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  t/.gitignore |  1 +
>  t/Makefile   | 12 +++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Without this, I get the error described in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
('/bin/sh: 10: Syntax error: "(" unexpected'), and with this, the
build in the Debian buildd environment succeeds.

Tested-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>

Thanks for fixing it.

Sincerely,
Jonathan