Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm interested in what I might run into. So far it looks like it would be ALMOST as easy as symlinking ksh to bash in /bin. Uh, this sounds scary :) The two big things I see that will cause that not to work are lots of calls to `print' and that bash does not

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread reader
Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm interested in what I might run into. So far it looks like it would be ALMOST as easy as symlinking ksh to bash in /bin. Uh, this sounds scary :) Yeah, it would be on a system with actual users but here its just me,

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I was really just saying that syntax at my low level of usage is largely interchangeable but for the cases I mentioned. So it makes switching scripting shells from ksh93 to bash pretty smooth.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-11 Thread reader
Matthias B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:32:46 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think I may just drop ksh93. Unfortunately, I've grown quite accustomed to using `print' instead of `echo -e' so I will have to replace that in a couple dozen scripts...

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-11 Thread reader
Matthias B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:18:44 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you say why you think zsh is better? The bugs. I've hit lots of bash bugs in the past and every version seems to fix some bugs and introduce new ones. I'm tired of adding new workarounds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-11 Thread Matthias B.
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:18:44 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you say why you think zsh is better? The bugs. I've hit lots of bash bugs in the past and every version seems to fix some bugs and introduce new ones. I'm tired of adding new workarounds to my scripts whenever I update bash. MSB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-11 Thread Matthias B.
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:56:11 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you cite some actual examples of what you are talking about, with enough detail so I can see what you mean? Maybe include one or two of the workarounds you are tired of dealing with? One thing I encountered is this bug echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-10 Thread Matthias B.
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:32:46 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think I may just drop ksh93. Unfortunately, I've grown quite accustomed to using `print' instead of `echo -e' so I will have to replace that in a couple dozen scripts... otherwise the scripts seem to run fine under

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-08 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Can anyone interpret this emerge failure and have some educated guesses what I should do to get it to compile. That message follows the eix output below. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4210019.html?sid=a282fd302189d24b214267ec5b90