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Re: [Nmh-workers] Portability issues in nmh 1.5-RC2
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Portability issues in nmh 1.5-RC2 |
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Mon, 07 May 2012 22:23:28 +0100 |
Hi David,
> Tom wrote:
> > Another problem I ran into is that the regression test scripts use
> > some shell features that the bare-bones /bin/sh on this machine
> > doesn't recognize.
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> I would be interested to know what shell incompatibilities you ran
> into so we could fix them. I tested with heirloom-sh but that
> apparently wasn't good enough.
You could try dash(1) but perhaps it's HP's sh not being POSIX enough as
opposed to nmh using non-POSIX features.
Cheers, Ralph.