On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Darren J Moffat <darrenm at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > Why would I want to use ksh93 builtins if I have /usr/gnu/bin explicitly in > my path ? ?Are the ksh93 builtin versions 100% compatible in all respects > with the GNU ones ?
No. It's explicitly stated that --version in particular is worded differently. I've seen configure scripts and applications take apart --version output in order to divine version-specific behaviour >?If so then I wonder why we are even shipping the GNU > ones. Because that's what many users and applications expect. And there's a world outside ksh93. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
