testsuite and "bashisms"

[Michael Tokarev]

10.11.2013 19:39, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 10.11.2013 19:25, Michael Tokarev wrpte:
>> Another question/issue with the testsuite.
>> '
>> The testsuite uses ${var/search/replace} construct
>> heavily.  It is implemented in bash and in busybox
>> ash, but not, for example, in dash, and it is not
>> in POSIX either.
>>
>> So when the system /bin/sh does not implement this
>> construct, los of tests fails like this:
>
> Actually there are just 2 places which are trivial to fix,
> and the following patch does just that.

Actually there are more of these, and the original patch
was wrong.  Applied is another version which actually
works (and tested) and fixes more places, together with
$((n++) and `type -p'.

With these changes, I can now run the testsuite on default
debian install.

Thanks,

/mjt