Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > Do you really like to require SunOS to loose backwads incompatiblity? > > Overly dramatic. You just need one mode that is POSIX compatible. Many GNU > tools use POSIXLY_CORRECT_
The Solaris practice for keeping backward compatibility despite new evolutions of the standards is to use /usr/xpg[457] directories. For example: /usr/xpg4/bin/sh != /usr/bin/sh /usr/xpg6/bin/ls != /usr/bin/ls /usr/xpg7/bin/getconf != /usr/bin/getconf There could be a /usr/xpg8/bin/gettext if POSIX gettext(1) ends up specifying a different behaviour than the current Solaris implementation has. Bruno
