On Thursday 15 September 2005 23:04, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > In order to get quilt to run on my Solaris 8 workstation, I would need > to be able to tell it which tail [1] and grep binaries to use. > Unfortunately, quilt's configure script doesn't let me do that. Attached > is a patch addressing the problem. There are surprisingly few calls to > tail and grep in the quilt scripts (2 and 8, respectively), so these > changes are less intrusive that I would have first thought. > > Still, given recent discussions about the best way to address > incompatibility issues, these patches may be controversial, which is why > I am posting them here first rather than applying them directly (as I'd > have done a few days ago).
No objections from my side. We can always convert those two substitutions to something better later. > My opinion is that alternative compatibility solutions (such as a > separate subdirectory with replacement stuff, to be prepended to quilt's > $PATH) have only been mentioned but nothing is currently implemented > AFAIK, and it may take some time before something is. It's totally trivial, but I thought we might want to see if somebody comes up with objections. > [1] Solaris' /usr/bin/tail doesn't support -n 42, it wants -42. > Fortuntely enough, it also has /usr/xpg4/bin/tail, which does understand > -n 42. I agree with Dean's point about tail -n option testing, so that would make a nice addition. Thanks, Andreas. _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
