On Dec 8, 2013, at 11:03 AM, David Levine <levinedl@acm.org> wrote:
Apparently, /usr/xpg4/bin/awk is POSIX compliant. Can build and test instructions for nmh on Solaris not state /usr/xpg4/bin needs to be up the front of PATH?Yes, but then our buildbot provider, maintainer, and gracious host would have to actually do that :-)
The only sane way to deal with Solaris is to prepend /usr/xpg4/bin to $PATH. I do that in my .profile, so I generally don't run into these POSIX compatibility issues. But the buildbot gets started from the equivalent of /etc/rc.local at boot time, and doesn't get this customization. My preference would be for the configure script to detect it is being run on Solaris and fudge $PATH appropriately. That way we get consistent source builds on Solaris even when the person building doesn't have the XPG4 tools at the front of their path. Well, my *real* preference would be for Solaris to join the 21st century, but I don't hold out much hope of that happening. --lyndon
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