On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" than > most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as > well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One thing > I also ran into is that md5sum (Debian) ~= md5 (BSD). I suppose you are > supposed to use SHA2 these days anyway :P > <rant> I'd like to jump in and say that the 'dialect' that the GNU utilities use often have a very strange interpretation of POSIX. Many porters (for example) have to spend huge amounts of time repairing GNUisms in install scripts; for example when I was helping to port Scilab (Bashisms in '['), and some work I've done on Busybox has meant I've had to work around GNUisms in sed and find. On the risk of starting a flame war, I believe that the GNU folks are guilty of exactly the same embracing and extension tactics (however unwittingly) as everyone's favourite software corp. </rant> Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
