openembedded-core.git/scripts/verify-bashisms, branch morty Mirror of openembedded-core scripts: add tool to scan for bashisms recipe shell scripts 2016-09-16T14:19:31+00:00 Ross Burton ross.burton@intel.com 2016-02-12T14:55:50+00:00 d77fe838ab7631a19e90ff4226f0712e54aa4e22 Shell functions in bitbake are executed with /bin/sh so should be POSIX compliant and not use Bash extensions, or at least only use extensions that are implemented in both dash and ash (busybox). This tool will extract all of the shell scripts from all recipes and run them through checkbashisms (it assumes that checkbashisms is on $PATH). There is a whitelist to filter out false-positives such as the use of $HOSTNAME (a bashism) in functions where we have defined it, or using the 'type' builtin which is supported by ash/dash. [ YOCTO #8851 ] Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> 
Shell functions in bitbake are executed with /bin/sh so should be POSIX
compliant and not use Bash extensions, or at least only use extensions that are
implemented in both dash and ash (busybox).

This tool will extract all of the shell scripts from all recipes and run them
through checkbashisms (it assumes that checkbashisms is on $PATH).

There is a whitelist to filter out false-positives such as the use of $HOSTNAME
(a bashism) in functions where we have defined it, or using the 'type' builtin
which is supported by ash/dash.

[ YOCTO #8851 ]

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>