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Re: tr portability


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: tr portability
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:31:10 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hello,

I just stumbled over this older proposal from Bruno:

* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:18:55PM CEST:
> A proposed wording, to be added to the section "Particular Systems", is:
> 
> On Solaris, don't put @code{/usr/ucb} early in your PATH.  @code{/usr/ucb}
> contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of these programs
> are available in @code{/usr/bin}.  So, if you need @code{/usr/ucb} in your
> PATH, put it @emph{after} @code{/usr/bin}.

We never applied that, but we do recommend against several individual
utilities from that directory in the shell portability section.  So I
think a warning for the end user is useful, too.

OK to push?

Thanks,
Ralf

commit ea8e975a790b19c8c6d77f6e67f186e527a10977
Author: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Oct 5 13:28:32 2008 +0200

    Warn about /usr/ucb on Solaris.
    
    * doc/install.texi (Particular Systems): Recommend putting
    /usr/ucb late in PATH, if at all.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4ccc626..9dbca3a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-10-05  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
+
+       Warn about /usr/ucb on Solaris.
+       * doc/install.texi (Particular Systems): Recommend putting
+       /usr/ucb late in PATH, if at all.
+
 2008-10-03  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
 
        Fix more testsuite hang corner cases.
diff --git a/doc/install.texi b/doc/install.texi
index a344b28..ebac0b9 100644
--- a/doc/install.texi
+++ b/doc/install.texi
@@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ Particular Systems
 ./configure CC="cc -nodtk"
 @end example
 
+On Solaris, don't put @code{/usr/ucb} early in your PATH.  @code{/usr/ucb}
+contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of these programs
+are available in @code{/usr/bin}.  So, if you need @code{/usr/ucb} in your
+PATH, put it @emph{after} @code{/usr/bin}.
+
 @node System Type
 @section Specifying the System Type
 




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