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Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5
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Peter O'Gorman |
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Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5 |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:55:12 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * m4/putenv.m4 (gl_FUNC_PUTENV): Require gl_STDLIB_H_DEFAULTS. Instead
>> of defining putenv in config.h, just set REPLACE_PUTENV.
>
> Thanks for doing that. I had written something quite similar but you
> beat me to it. One minor change, which I just installed, is to tell
> users that we're testing for compatibility for GNU as well as for
> SVID. (GNU is more important and better known these days than SVID.)
The test for putenv("FOO") removing FOO from the environment is, as far
as I am aware, only a GNU putenv feature (well, misfeature in my
opinion), so it is probably best to delete the SVID portion entirely.
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg09682.html
Peter