Hi John, John Vandenberg wrote: > afaik quilt has not had a hard dependency on coreutils, except that > mail uses GNU date and uniq features. If possible, could we avoid > this dependency as it is a very large package, or turn the error into > a warning that mail wont work?
That would be great! However, writing portable shell will *definitely*
slow things down noticably, not to mention the nightmare of winnowing out
all the little unportabilities. According to quilt's `configure --help',
we use non-portable features of the following (effectively requiring the
coreutils version to be installed on many hosts):
--with-cp name of the cp executable to use
--with-date name of the date executable to use (use
--without-date to use an internal mechanism)
--with-grep name of the grep executable to use
--with-tail name of the tail executable to use
--with-tr name of the tr executable to use
--with-column name of the column executable to use (use
--without-column to use an internal mechanism)
--with-mktemp name of the mktemp executable to use (use
--without-mktemp to use an internal mechanism)
And these are scattered throughout the code :-(
Cheers,
Gary.
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