Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
Ken Hornstein wrote: Oliver, what does SHELL get set to in the nmh Makefile? It might be as It gets set to /bin/bash. I suppose you have to consider that autoconf is a FSF thing so it will try to find GNU stuff first, much as it will default to GCC over Solaris Studio, gawk over nawk etc. The stuff in /usr/xpg4/bin would be POSIX compliant but frankly, it is easier to adjust scripts to work with Solaris' /bin/sh (as David has now done) than to have it dig around trying to find the POSIX stuff. Oliver ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
Ken Hornstein k...@pobox.com writes: There are a large number of changes in this release; the release notes (see the NEWS file in the distribution) I got tired just reading the NEW FEATURES section. Norman Shapiro ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
Ken Hornstein k...@pobox.com writes: Greetings all, I am pleased to announce the first release candidate (RC1) of nmh 1.5 is now available. You can find it for download here: INSTLLL says: For routine installation on popular platforms, the shell script in docs/contrib/build_nmh can be used to guide you through configuration. It will then build and optionally (with -i) install in the configured location. I can't find a file named build_nmh anywhwere in the distribution. ./configure; make; make install seemed to work find. Norman Shapiro ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
For routine installation on popular platforms, the shell script in docs/contrib/build_nmh can be used to guide you through configuration. It will then build and optionally (with -i) install in the configured location. I can't find a file named build_nmh anywhwere in the distribution. ./configure; make; make install seemed to work find. Whoops, that script got sneaked in there but the Makefile.am wasn't updated to include that in the distribution. I'll fix that for the next release candidate. --Ken ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
I am pleased to announce the first release candidate (RC1) of nmh 1.5 is now available. Are requests for new feature, sans code. in order yet? Sure, go for it. Obviously no new features will be in 1.5, but I can't think of a reason to not talk about what comes next. --Ken ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
Oliver wrote:
I tried compiling and installing on Solaris. It all builds fine but I
get the following message repeated a number of times:
./man/mh-chart-gen.sh: !: not found
! is not available in pure Bourne shell and should be avoided.
There are several options, we could use:
echo $i | grep 'mh-chart.man' /dev/null continue
or:
expr $i : .*/mh-chart.man /dev/null continue
I think continue works in any reasonable /bin/sh.
Or we could avoid any forks by using a case statement:
case $i in
*/mh-chart.man) break;
*)
...
;;
esac
I'll change it to the case statement (without the break).
The script then goes on to complain about the -E option to grep (only
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep or egrep handle that on Solaris).
I think the easiest solution here to the roll the grep -E into the awk:
awk '/.SH SYNOPSIS/,/^(\.ad|typical usage:)/ { if ( $0 !~ /^(\.SH
SYNOPSIS|\.na|\.ad|typical usage:)/ ) print }'
Thanks. I'll change it to that.
David
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Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
! is not available in pure Bourne shell and should be avoided. Minor nit: ! is in POSIX; the problem here is Solaris has an ancient sh implementation (isn't there a POSIX one in something like /usr/xpg4/bin ?). Same with -E for grep. I'm fine with workarounds for Solaris, but I'm wondering if we want to tackle this in a different way. Example: we could use AC_PROG_EGREP for the grep issue (although Oliver's suggestion to combine it into awk seems reasonable as well). I'm neutral on solutions for the problem with POSIX shell constructs; we could either get rid of them or have autoconf pick a better shell. --Ken ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
Ken wrote: Minor nit: ! is in POSIX; the problem here is Solaris has an ancient sh implementation (isn't there a POSIX one in something like /usr/xpg4/bin?). Same with -E for grep. I'm fine with workarounds for Solaris, but I'm wondering if we want to tackle this in a different way. Example: we could use AC_PROG_EGREP for the grep issue (although Oliver's suggestion to combine it into awk seems reasonable as well). I'm neutral on solutions for the problem with POSIX shell constructs; we could either get rid of them or have autoconf pick a better shell. Oliver's fix with awk works, and saves some cycles, so I'm happy with that. I'll wrestle with the shell accomodations here and in the test suite for now. If it gets to be too much, we can revisit. David ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
On 2012-04-24, at 9:21 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote: Minor nit: ! is in POSIX; the problem here is Solaris has an ancient sh implementation (isn't there a POSIX one in something like /usr/xpg4/bin ?). Same with -E for grep. You cannot sanely use a Solaris system without putting /usr/xpg4/bin at the front of your $PATH. If the auto* tools can arrange for this to happen in the appropriate places, they should. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] First release candidate for 1.5 now available
You cannot sanely use a Solaris system without putting /usr/xpg4/bin at the front of your $PATH. If the auto* tools can arrange for this to happen in the appropriate places, they should. There is some stuff to do that already in Autotools. I know it will search /usr/xpg4/bin for the right grep (that might require us to add a macro). Okay, I found a Solaris system at work ... what I've found is that: - It automatically found grep in /usr/xpg4/bin, so if we use GREP everywhere the Right Thing should happen - It set SHELL to /bin/bash, but I don't know if bash is installed on Solaris by default. It's also not clear that it will search the xpg4 path for it. Oliver, what does SHELL get set to in the nmh Makefile? It might be as simple as using $(SHELL) appropriately. I tried that on the tests (I set TESTS_ENVIRONMENT to end in $(SHELL)) and that helped ... but there are plenty of other problems in the nmh tests on Solaris. Not sure it's worth fixing all of those. --Ken ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
