From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from most.weird.com ([204.92.254.2]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24642>; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:56:56 -0500 Received: by most.weird.com via sendmail with stdio id for rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:45:04 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.93-pre 1997-Mar-5 #11 built 1997-Mar-5) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:45:04 -0500 From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) To: byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis) Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: RC => POSIX In-Reply-To: Byron Rakitzis's message of "Wed, March 26, 1997 03:54:26 PST" regarding "Re: RC => POSIX" id <9703261154.AA02882@netapp.com> References: <9703261154.AA02882@netapp.com> Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) X-Mailer: ViewMail (vm) Version 5.96 (beta) with GNU Emacs 19.34.1 (m68k.68881-sun-sunos4.1.1, X toolkit) of Thu Sep 12 1996 on most Organization: Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada [ On Wed, March 26, 1997 at 03:54:26 (PST), Byron Rakitzis wrote: ] > Subject: Re: RC => POSIX > > Would all such new unices support posix? Most are close, but not that many are officially branded (or even tested). > Does gnu autoconf effectively > cover the entire space of unices? All that I've encountered though I have not tried running it on something like SysVr2 or even SysVr3. Of course autoconf is extensible if necessary, and will no doubt be fixed as incompatabilities appear too. The latest version of autoconf generated configure scripts are known to fail on some ancient versions of sh, but I've found that all such systems with broken /bin/sh's also have newer shells, such as ksh, installed by default, so it's trivial for the user to work around such problems. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP robohack!woods Planix, Inc. ; Secrets of the Weird