Haim Zilberbord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Solaris is POSIX compliant. Linux is not. If you question is: 'what
> tools are not strictly POSIX compliant?' I would rethink that question -
> POSIX is a minimal specification and does not provide for every possible
> extension a covered API or utility may need, including OpenSolaris.
>
> build tools is just transformation tools. They read from files, transform ,
> and save result to file. And i think that Standard C Lib (part of posix, and
> gnu libc is known to be compatible) is totally sufficient for this
> task.(correct me if i make mistake)
make is also part of POSIX and GNU make is no POSIX compliant although
the authors claim so (there are extreme deviations in e.g. white space
handling of the GNU make parser).
I cannot speak for the POSIX compliance of glibc; it is however not
compatible to the Solaris kernel.
Jörg
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