On 6-Jun-10, at 8:36 AM, Davide Brini wrote:
On Saturday 05 June 2010, Toby Thain wrote:
<rant>
I'm not sure why Solaris has been insisting for ages now in shipping
default tools that are either old, with less features or downright
broken.
It's not just about sh; other popular tools like awk are also
pretty much
unusable by default under Solaris; one needs to use the POSIX-
compliant
versions that are under /usr/xpg4/bin/.
</rant>
Most of the common GNU utilities (including gcc) are in the standard
Solaris install, either via /usr/sfw/ or by using g prefix (e.g.
gawk,
gmake).
Possibly, but it still means that either scripts using standard
names and
expecting standard functionality have to be changed, or the system
has to be
changed to have the standard-named utilites point to the GNU versions.
Yes and no... Autotools will generally find the g-binaries (obviously
autotools has long supported Solaris). OpenSolaris does, I believe,
bring more GNU to standard userland (but this is not uncontroversial).
It is a bit tricky deriving a portable bang-path in your case. But
innovations like dash on Debian also serve to prove that 'all the
world's not a GNU/Linux'.
--Toby
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