> So it seems all this os is about running 20 years old stuff, while others are
> running modern things. really, no wonder why linux is killing everything else
> - people need to go on, not to be stuck with sunos 4.
I would not worry too much about "Linux killing everything else", as Linux is
currently in the midst of mass exodus to FreeBSD by people who grew up with
Linux, thanks to systemd(8).
Apropos SunOS 4 backward compatibility: I build a lot of software on Solaris,
and I mean a lot, all the time. One of the things I get busted by, my
"guesstimate" is about one third of the time, is when build systems use
install(1M) and assume it is the BSD version of install(1M).
While I have been purposely excluding packages which populate /usr/ucb from my
production systems since 2005, I am still forced to have /usr/ucb on my
development systems, just because of this.
Can anybody think of an elegant way to deliver both System V and FreeBSD
install(1) simultaneously, so that build systems which assume FreeBSD version
of install(1M) do not break?
Or maybe, can everybody on this mailing list who depends on BSD-specific tools
which /usr/ucb delivers identify what it is that they need, so that we can
identify a concrete list of things that need to be provided, ditch the rest,
and start looking at modernization / replacements (or both)?
I need FreeBSD install(1M). Anybody else? Let us make a list, then leverage
that information.
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