Of course, the non-portable constructs in the shell scripts come from a long term mindset of "if it's not solaris or linux, it must be windows."
Better would be "if it's not windows, it must be unix" Very compactly (untested): case "`uname -s`" in Windows* | CYGWIN*) NULL=NUL PS=";" FS="\\" ;; *) NULL=/dev/null PS=":" FS="/" ;; esac This would be a pervasive change. Martin On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Alex Potanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on the javac extension and I tried to run the javac tests in > the OpenJDK's latest Mercurial repository. > > I see that a few of them contain the following in the shell scripts: > > # set platform-dependent variables > OS=`uname -s` > case "$OS" in > SunOS | Linux ) > NULL=/dev/null > PS=":" > FS="/" > ;; > Windows* ) > NULL=NUL > PS=";" > FS="\\" > ;; > * ) > echo "Unrecognized system!" > exit 1; > ;; > esac > > Since I use NetBSD, my 'uname -s' returns NetBSD. > > I had to add "| NetBSD" to the "SunOS | Linux" line to fix the test scripts > so that they don't return "Unrecognized system!". > > Some of the affected scripts are: > > tools/javac/4846262/Test.sh > tools/javac/6302184/T6302184.sh > tools/javac/ClassPathTest/ClassPathTest.sh > > But there are others that I can find if required (I suspect grepping will do > a good job). > > I was wondering if it can please be fixed to take NetBSD into account or > whether there is a better way of fixing this? > > Thanks, > Alex. >