Re: [PATCH] perf build: Specify that spellcheck should use the bash dialect.

[James Clark]

On 13/06/2025 4:36 am, Collin Funk wrote:
> When someone has a global shellcheckrc file, for example at
> ~/.config/shellcheckrc, with the directive 'shell=sh', building perf
> will fail with many shellcheck errors like:
>
>      In tests/shell/base_probe/test_adding_kernel.sh line 294:
>      (( TEST_RESULT += $? ))
>      ^---------------------^ SC3006 (warning): In POSIX sh, standalone ((..)) is undefined.
>
>      For more information:
>        https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC3006 -- In POSIX sh, standalone ((..)) is...
>      make[5]: *** [tests/Build:91: tests/shell/base_probe/test_adding_kernel.sh.shellcheck_log] Error 1
>
> Passing the '-s bash' option ensures that it runs correctly regardless
> of a developers global configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   tools/perf/tests/Build | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/Build b/tools/perf/tests/Build
> index 2181f5a92148..26efc5d20f6c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/tests/Build
> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/Build
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ endif
>   
>   $(OUTPUT)%.shellcheck_log: %
>   	$(call rule_mkdir)
> -	$(Q)$(call echo-cmd,test)shellcheck -a -S warning "$<" > $@ || (cat $@ && rm $@ && false)
> +	$(Q)$(call echo-cmd,test)shellcheck -s bash -a -S warning "$<" > $@ || (cat $@ && rm $@ && false)
>   
>   perf-test-y += $(SHELL_TEST_LOGS)
>   

If we're enforcing bash style with static analysis shouldn't we also 
change all the hashbangs to bash? Recently there have been changes to 
change sh to bash in some of the tests so presumably the hard rule for 
sh is no more?

In the past I've had to replace bashisms that didn't work in sh but it 
would be nice to have only one language to write tests in. I doubt 
anyone running the tests today is running somewhere without bash, or 
that changing it will break anything. If anything it will fix more 
bashisms that have already been written.

Just for reference there are 34 #!/bin/bash and 42 #!/bin/sh in 
tools/perf/tests

Thanks
James