"make test" gives error: "Syntax error: "(" unexpected"

[Botond Ballo]

Full output:

#!

$ make test
cd test && ./sanity-test.sh
./sanity-test.sh: 3: ./sanity-test.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Makefile:44: recipe for target 'test' failed
make: *** [test] Error 2

Perhaps we're using different shells, or different shell versions? I'm using bash 4.4.

[Botond Ballo]

So it turns out that, while bash 4.4 is what runs in my terminal, that's not what scripts run with by default. Scripts run with /bin/sh by default, and on my system, /bin/sh is a symlink to dash, not bash. The syntax you're using appears to be valid bash, but not valid dash.

The solution in these cases is to add the following line at the beginning of the script:

#!/bin/bash

which tells the invoking shell to run the script using /bin/bash, not the default /bin/sh.

[Botond Ballo]

Run the test script using bash, not the default shell (fixes #21)

This is necessary because it uses some bash-specific syntax.

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