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bug#24805: grep-2.26: FTBFS on hpux11 - getprogname.c not ported
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John David Anglin |
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bug#24805: grep-2.26: FTBFS on hpux11 - getprogname.c not ported |
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Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:15:40 -0400 |
On 2016-10-26, at 8:53 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Ha! And I was just last week defending HP-UX as still being a relevant
>>> platform for GNU applications! See:
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>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-10/msg00116.html
>>>
>>> Anyway, thanks for the port to HP-UX. I installed the attached patch into
>>> Gnulib and it should appear in the next grep release, so I am somewhat
>>> boldly marking this bug as done.
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>> Nice. Thank you both!
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> I've just pushed the gnulib-updating commit, then realized that this
> merits a NEWS entry, so wrote/pushed that, too.
Wow!
Whether HP-UX is still relevant I can't say but $3 billion would pay for a lot
of development.
Gcc still works on HP-UX and based on our Debian package count, it's working
better than ever:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid
Dave
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