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
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
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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
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.
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
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 |
! 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
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.
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
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
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