[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Solaris 8?

[Dustin Sallings]

On Nov 30, 2003, at 22:59, Miles Bader wrote:

> The cool thing about solaris is that all the user utilities were
> frozen -- including bugs -- around 1977 (Yes!  Before sun was 
> founded!).
> This includes /usr/bin/awk, which is the oldest, cruftiest, buggiest
> awk you can possibly imagine (e.g., no functions).  Isn't that special?
>
> Sun includes a newer (though no doubt still absurdly riddled with bugs,
> knowing Sun) version called /usr/bin/nawk, and many other OS
> distributions include this as a compability link, which is why I 
> usually
> use /usr/bin/nawk in my awk scripts.  However apparently some vendors
> don't do this, e.g., Colin reports than Redhat's Fedora 1 doesn't
> include a nawk link.
>
> For your sanity, I'd suggest installing gawk or something and calling
> it `awk'.
>
> I'm not sure what Tom's configure script should use, other than perhaps
> searching for /usr/bin/nawk and using that if found, otherwise
> defaulting to just `awk'.

	I suspected something like this.  Getting an awk -> nawk symlink 
earlier in my path seems to have got it going.  Thanks for the help.  
Now it's just a matter of smacking around stupid shell builtins to get 
around problems like this:

test ! -e gen-alignment || rm gen-alignment
/bin/sh: test: argument expected

        This will be fun.

	In another terminal, I'm getting postfix+sasl+ldap+tls on SunOS 4.1.4 
on a Sun4c.  For that, I had to port psh (my own parallel bourne shell 
hack) just to get a bourne shell that would actually run autoconf.  
SASL was a blast.  Now I've been waiting for a couple of hours for the 
latest OpenSSL to build.

	I think I'll try to see if I can get my cat to gnaw off my feet while 
I wait.

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