Re: [osol-discuss] PATH setup and environment compatibility was Re: [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bill Sommerfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is why we need to do the work necessary to figure out how to make the GNU variant environment a first-class environment on solaris. If this should happen, care must be taken to make the tools behave as POSIX compliant as possible. With GNU tar,

Re: [osol-discuss] PATH setup and environment compatibility was Re: [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-05 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 10:24 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: Admittedly, I am somewhat fuzzy on what software is supposed to do if it needs a specific version of a utility. It should set PATH to reflect the environment it expects. For example, if a configure script decides that it wants to and

[osol-discuss] PATH setup and environment compatibility was Re: [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-04 Thread Shawn Walker
On 04/11/2007, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4-Nov-07, at 2:08 AM, James Mansion wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: itself thrives. We started this project four years ago to build a developer community. That was the primary goal from which multiple objectives would grow. In

Re: [osol-discuss] PATH setup and environment compatibility was Re: [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-04 Thread John Sonnenschein
On 4-Nov-07, at 8:24 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 04/11/2007, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4-Nov-07, at 2:08 AM, James Mansion wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: itself thrives. We started this project four years ago to build a developer community. That was the primary goal from