CVS commit: pkgsrc/regress/tools-platform

["Roland Illig" <rillig%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   rillig
Date:           Sun May  3 07:38:50 UTC 2020

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/regress/tools-platform: sh.test

Log Message:
regress/tools-platform: document which shell pkgsrc uses


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/regress/tools-platform/sh.test

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/regress/tools-platform/sh.test
diff -u pkgsrc/regress/tools-platform/sh.test:1.2 pkgsrc/regress/tools-platform/sh.test:1.3
--- pkgsrc/regress/tools-platform/sh.test:1.2   Sat May  2 07:24:32 2020
+++ pkgsrc/regress/tools-platform/sh.test       Sun May  3 07:38:50 2020
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# $NetBSD: sh.test,v 1.2 2020/05/02 07:24:32 rillig Exp $
+# $NetBSD: sh.test,v 1.3 2020/05/03 07:38:50 rillig Exp $
 #
 # Tests for the shell that is available as ${SH} in Makefiles.
 #
-# Having a feature tested in this file does not mean it is available in
-# Makefiles since devel/bmake may use a completely different shell for
-# running its commands.  For example on SunOS, devel/bmake typically
-# uses /usr/xpg4/bin/sh while TOOLS_PLATFORM.sh is /bin/ksh.
+# On platforms where /bin/sh is not good enough, pkgsrc may use
+# different shells, depending on the exact situation.
+#
+# TOOLS_PLATFORM.sh (which ends up in SH as well) is used for running
+# shell programs from mk/ and other programs that typically start with
+# a #! line.
+#
+# The shell commands that are written in the targets of Makefiles (such
+# as do-build, pre-configure) are run with a possibly different shell,
+# see devel/bmake/Makefile.  This shell is tested by regress/make-shell,
+# which also uses this code.
 
 set -eu