On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:16:07 +0100
Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org> wrote:

> "Mark J. Nelson" wrote:
> > 
> > Gah.
> > 
> > I guess my dirty little secret is out: I'm an OpenSolaris user, on all
> > of my systems (SunRay server and laptop.)
> > 
> > Anyway, as of my webrev changes earlier today, the onnv version of
> > webrev will only work with ksh93.  This works on OpenSolaris systems,
> > where /usr/bin/ksh is ksh93.  It breaks on Solaris Nevada systems, where
> > /usr/bin/ksh is ksh88.
> > 
> > As of my followup integration (which just completed), the #! line is
> > correct, and SNV and OpenSolaris users will continue to function.  The
> > tools will be propagated in the next 30-60 minutes.
> > 
> > In the mean time, you may use "/path/to/ksh93 /path/to/webrev" to get
> > the correct behavior.
> > 
> > My apologies for not catching this in my testing.
> 
> Erm... why is this a "flag day" ? OS/Net has ksh93 since Solaris 11/B72
> and right now SXCE won't even boot without /usr/bin/ksh93 (don't worry,
> ksh93 is (like ksh88) delivered via the "SUNWcsu" package and therefore
> available on all systems).


It's a flag day because there are lots of people who work on
Solaris 10 backports who prefer to use the onnv version of
webrev(1) - and if they run the onnv version on an s10 system
then they'll have problems.


James C. McPherson
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp       http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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