Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: New Solaris 7 features | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:10:49 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199811111656.KAA03618@dyheli.kwr>, kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net writes: +----- | files; their diff is incapable of applying any sort of patch. Why | didn't they just snag Larry Wall's patch and GNU diffutils? +--->8
/usr/bin/patch is in fact a very old version of Larry Wall's patch. (*Very* old.)
The assumption is that if you care, you'll hit a SunSITE for the GNU stuff; and if you don't care, what else is there to say? Meanwhile what they ship is compatible with older standards, and I've seen GNU stuff cause some commercial packages to explode rather messily; some examples are bash incompatibility with both old /bin/sh and commercially current /bin/ksh scripts and GNU make not properly handling some makefile constructs that are accepted by virtually every other version of make.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.
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