Hi,
Can someone please confirm whether /bin/sh is still POSIX compliant on
10.12.latest (i.e. `/bin/sh --version` shows it's actually bash), please?
thanks,
René
On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:12:07 +0100, René J.V. Bertin
wrote:
Hi,
Can someone please confirm whether /bin/sh is still POSIX compliant on
10.12.latest (i.e. `/bin/sh --version` shows it's actually bash), please?
thanks,
René
from `man bash':
"If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries
>From the man page:
Bash is largely compatible with `sh' and incorporates useful
features from the Korn shell `ksh' and the C shell `csh'. It is
intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and
Tools portion of the IEEE POSIX specification (IEEE Standard 1003.1).
It offers f
Thanks. This doesn't really answer the question if /bin/sh is still bash but I
suppose there is little chance that has changed since 10.9 .
R.
René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Thanks. This doesn't really answer the question if /bin/sh is still bash
> but I suppose there is little chance that has changed since 10.9 .
I am running Sierra 10.12.3.
% /bin/sh --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16)
Copyright (C) 2007
I am trying to do a “selfupdate” but it’s failing. Note that our company may
be blocking outgoing pings so that might explain the problematic
ping/traceroute results. I am able to get to rsync.macports.org but it
re-directs to distfiles.macports.org. Usually I am behind a proxy but I ran
thi
On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:41:42 +0100, René J.V. Bertin
wrote:
Thanks. This doesn't really answer the question if /bin/sh is still bash
but I suppose there is little chance that has changed since 10.9 .
right. and I would have thought _that_ part of your original mail (the
main part seeming
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Thanks; that nails it to my back yard, then :-(
A posting on an unrelated subject reminded me about something: I recently
upgraded my broadband service from ADSL (copper) to fibre, and a new
router was supplied. I've since discovered that the router (
On Mar 7, 2017, at 10:55 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> A posting on an unrelated subject reminded me about something: I recently
> upgraded my broadband service from ADSL (copper) to fibre, and a new
> router was supplied. I've since discovered that the r
I'm trying to port a client that comes with only a makefile, but fail to
destroot it, although it sort of does if I sudo manually. I attach the log.
https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-cpp-client/blob/master/Makefile
main.log
Description: Binary data
On Mar 7, 2017, at 10:15, db wrote:
> I'm trying to port a client that comes with only a makefile, but fail to
> destroot it, although it sort of does if I sudo manually. I attach the log.
>
> https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-cpp-client/blob/master/Makefile
>
>
The Makefile does not suppor
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 09:32, Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)
> wrote:
>
> I am trying to do a “selfupdate” but it’s failing.
Has it ever worked?
> Note that our company may be blocking outgoing pings so that might explain
> the problematic ping/traceroute results.
Tell your company to fix that;
On Tuesday March 07 2017 16:32:37 j. van den hoff wrote:
> right. and I would have thought _that_ part of your original mail (the
> main part seemingly was concerned with POSIX compliance, no?) you had
> already answered yourself via issuing `/bin/sh --version'?
Indeed, but on 10.9 . I needed
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> DNS uses udp (and some tcp). I'd be really surprised if it blocked /all/
> udp packets (and if so, I would get my provider to replace it or let me
> replace it with something that didn't suck).
To clarify: DNS works OK, but nothing else on UDP does.
On 2017-03-07, 8:33 AM, "Ryan Schmidt" wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 09:32, Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)
wrote:
>
> I am trying to do a “selfupdate” but it’s failing.
Has it ever worked?
It used to work.
> Note that our company may be blocking outgoing pings s
On 7 Mar 2017, at 17:29, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> The Makefile does not support DESTDIR. Ideally, fix the Makefile to support
> DESTDIR and submit that to the developers.
MacPorts Guide links to
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html, where it states 'You
should not set the valu
On Mar 7, 2017, at 12:37, db wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2017, at 17:29, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> The Makefile does not support DESTDIR. Ideally, fix the Makefile to support
>> DESTDIR and submit that to the developers.
>
> MacPorts Guide links to
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017, at 03:42 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> > On Mar 6, 2017, at 15:44, Geoff Down wrote:
> > 10.4.11 .That's also why I can't access Trac via Github.
>
> Safari on Tiger can access GitHub, but not MacPorts' new servers, because
> MacPorts' new servers use SNI which Safari on Tige
On 7 Mar 2017, at 20:00, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> That can be an acceptable workaround. Sometimes it has side effects. I don't
> know if it does with this port.
Can you give an example?
Something strange I found is that file copy fails silently, no log whatsoever,
pre- and post-destroot.
post-de
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> DNS uses udp (and some tcp). I'd be really surprised if it blocked /all/
> udp packets (and if so, I would get my provider to replace it or let me
> replace it with something that didn't suck).
Usuually this is trying to force you to use
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:38 AM, René J.V. Bertin
wrote:
> Indeed, but on 10.9 . I needed to be certain that there had been no
> changes no matter how unlikely that seemed (or not, given Apple's allergy
> towards GPL'ed software).
Not GPL in general, just GPL3. Which is why they ship the last G
On Mar 7, 2017, at 13:27, db wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2017, at 20:00, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> That can be an acceptable workaround. Sometimes it has side effects. I don't
>> know if it does with this port.
>
> Can you give an example?
Suppose the program builds a dynamic library. The absolute path of
On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:07 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 27 February 2017 at 11:16, Mojca Miklavecwrote:
>> On 27 February 2017 at 11:07, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>
>>> I just figured out that k3dsurf depends on qt3-mac which doesn't
>>> compile on > 10.6, but one can still install qt3 and compile k
I think people paid more attention to the first part of your question
(whether /bin/sh is POSIX compliant) than the second part in
parentheses (whether it is bash—I completely misunderstood that part).
On 7 March 2017 at 22:41, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Thanks. This doesn't really answer the ques
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