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bug#20733: coreutils build problem
From: |
Stephane Chazelas |
Subject: |
bug#20733: coreutils build problem |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:42:31 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
2015-06-05 09:43:10 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
> 2015-06-04 16:51:49 -0700, Paul Eggert:
[...]
> > Ah, sorry, I was thinking of previous versions of POSIX, which
> > required at least one word after the 'in'. You're right, the
> > current POSIX version doesn't require this any more. So the Solaris
> > sh in question is conforming to the old POSIX standard but not to
> > the current one.
> [...]
>
> Note that the Solaris (10 and before) sh in question is not a
> POSIX shell, it's still the Bourne shell which is not POSIX
> conformant in many different ways (the POSIX sh spec is based on
> a subset of ksh88, not the Bourne shell). In those Solaris
> systems, POSIX sh is /usr/xpg4/bin/sh (based on ksh88).
[...]
Well, the /usr/xpg4/bin/sh of Solaris 10 (based on ksh88i)
doesn't support "for i in; do" either. That "sh" would be
conforming to the older version of POSIX as you said.
--
Stephane
- bug#20733: coreutils build problem, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/04
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- bug#20733: coreutils build problem, Michael Felt, 2015/06/05
- bug#20733: coreutils build problem, Eric Blake, 2015/06/05
- bug#20733: coreutils build problem, Michael Felt, 2015/06/05
- bug#20733: coreutils build problem, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/05
- bug#20733: coreutils build problem, Michael Felt, 2015/06/05