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Re: CVS commit: src



Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> * On 2009-02-28 at 04:50 GMT, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:38:30PM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> >
> > > Module Name:      src
> > > Committed By:     sketch
> > > Date:             Wed Feb 25 20:38:30 UTC 2009
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   src: Makefile
> > >   src/etc: Makefile
> > >   src/usr.sbin/postinstall: postinstall
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Use awk and grep host tools where required.  'build.sh release' now works
> > > on Solaris (but only with HOST_CC=/usr/sfw/bin/gcc for now).
> > 
> > Do you really mean OpenSolaris here (with ksh93 as /bin/sh)?
> 
> No, it is assumed build.sh is invoked as '/bin/ksh build.sh' or similar on
> platforms where the host /bin/sh is not good enough.  Sorry if that wasn't
> clear.
> 
> I'd actually quite like to see build.sh made more portable so this isn't
> necessary, but I don't know if that would receive widespread agreement.

Crippling scripts to run on pre posix shells is not portability.
And shells scripts never were truly portable anyway. :-)

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