On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:25:23 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote: > Glenn Fowler wrote: > > I'm working on resolving the getconf problem(s) > > and hope to have it working and tested by tomorrow > > at that point I'll post source that roland can test > > before larger distribution
> Thanks! ... :-) > ... but note that even if "getconf" works we need to disable it for now > (in our build) since it wasn't covered by the ARC case (and we would > need another ARC case to get it enabled (and if we find more nits in the > "getconf" builtin we can't enable it anyway... ;-( )) ... ;-( > ... it seems we still need a workaround for now (like the patch I send > you ealier this week). we can't patch our master source (drop getconf builtin) on such short turnaround the build and packaging system that includes ksh also uses ksh so we (I) have to be certain that such a change won't bring it down like a house of cards in a larger shop this may seem crazy (base everything on the latest) but it has been a good plan for the 3 main ast owners (korn vo fowler) it exposes stupid bugs/errors right away and nudges the owners to maintain and extend (fairly) comprehensive regression tests and it means we use what we post indeed the posts themselves used what we post this is not a showstopper, but its also not something I can commit to right this second until its affect on the big picture (sun + everything else) is clear -- which I believe will be tomorrow -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
