On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:02:16PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > How about a bug report for the lack of posix compliance in /bin/sh? > Or is it a compiler issue or popen?
/bin/sh (and all the other utilities in /bin) is not expected to be posix compliant. If you want posix compliance, you should be running the versions in /usr/xpg4/bin instead, either directly, or by putting that first in your $PATH. There was a bug filed for exactly this about five years ago, which was closed because it was presumed that too many scripts depend on the particular behaviors of /bin/sh to make the transition worthwhile. I don't think there's any way to make this change and preserve compatibility for everyone who expects it. > Both my HP and AIX systems have no trouble with arithmetic in > /bin/sh. Solaris seems to be the odd man out. /bin/sh on Solaris is a pretty sad program, and really (in my opinion, not Sun's) shouldn't be used. Either use ksh for interactive stuff and personal scripts, or use the posix-flavored utilities in /usr/xpg4. Which means that you'd have to parametrize the path to the shell with configure, but you already do that for perl, so it's more of an annoyance than a difficult problem. Danek -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
