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Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools |
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19 Feb 2003 13:45:55 -0800 |
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"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> writes:
> even Ultrix had another shell, /bin/sh5, if I remember correctly,
> that did support shell functions, and it would not have been too
> difficult for configure to attempt to find it
Recent versions of Autoconf generate "configure" scripts that do just
that, which is partly why I'm not so worried about the shell-function
issue even for Ultrix. This also may help to explain why new
"configure" start up so slowly on older boxes -- you don't get this
functionality for free, unfortunately.
Do you recall whether /bin/sh5 was a standard part of Ultrix and was
installed on every Ultrix machine? If /bin/sh5 was an option and
might not be installed, then there still might be an issue here.
- Re: backward compatability of tools, (continued)
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Paul Eggert, 2003/02/17
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Dr. David Kirkby, 2003/02/18
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Paul Eggert, 2003/02/18
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Dr. David Kirkby, 2003/02/18
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Alex Hornby, 2003/02/19
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Paul Eggert, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Bruce Korb, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, John W. Eaton, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Bob Friesenhahn, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Thomas E. Dickey, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Charles Wilson, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Bruce Korb, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Harlan Stenn, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Bruce Korb, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Chris Albertson, 2003/02/20
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Chris Albertson, 2003/02/19
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Russ Allbery, 2003/02/19
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Eric Siegerman, 2003/02/19
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Paul Eggert, 2003/02/19
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Eric Siegerman, 2003/02/19