X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=test%2FREADME;h=7b1de5fde9c2d43247ad1dc884246c64bf388aa1;hb=b3bc649e0562c9aa68acdf7fb5c8c03335cafb25;hp=1ac904f28a22e5047e92d8a4fa596d1718386507;hpb=3af82657e2b0bf04758f149cdeed07e4143a151d;p=mmh diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index 1ac904f..7b1de5f 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -70,3 +70,11 @@ in the test scripts. In particular: - Avoid depending on the exact format of output from system (non-nmh) programs. + +The Heirloom Bourne Shell, http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/sh.html, +catches many non-portable shell constructs, such as $(), $(()), !, and +assignment in export statements. + +checkbashisms, available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkbaskisms/, +might help some catch problems. Though it misses all of the troublesome +constructs, except for assignment in an export statement, listed above.