From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Brandon Casey" <drafnel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2018, #01; Tue, 4)
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:45:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzhwv51wy.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRrwW662Hzp8V1sH51x8qYxPyqG=VHpOkfd-=RwUSSZbw@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Wed, 5 Sep 2018 04:59:27 -0400")
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 4:29 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I recently gained access to a Solaris 10 SPARC (5.10) box and discovered
>> that the chainlint.sed implementation in 2.19.0 has more sed portability
>> issues.
>>
>> First, whoever implemented the /bin/sed on Solaris apparently read the
>> POSIX requirements for a max length label of 8 to mean that 8 characters
>> should include the colon, so a bunch of things fail because of that, but
>> are fixed with a shorter 7 character label.
>
> I'm pretty sure that Solaris 'sed' predates POSIX by a good bit, but
> that's neither here nor there.
I thought that we long time ago declared that it is a lost cause to
use Solaris with only tools in /bin and /usr/bin and instead depend
on /usr/xpg[46]/bin; did something happen recently to make us
reconsider the position? If not, let's not waste time worrying
about /bin/sed over there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-05 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-23 9:14 [PATCH] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c N Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 9:56 ` Test failures on OpenBSD Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 15:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-23 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c N Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 16:11 ` Jeff King
2018-08-23 15:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable seq Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 16:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-23 17:20 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 20:35 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] OpenBSD & AIX etc. portability fixes Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 20:36 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c N Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 20:36 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable seq Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 20:36 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] tests: use shorter here-docs in chainlint.sed for AIX sed Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-23 20:56 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-24 15:20 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] OpenBSD & AIX etc. portability fixes Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-24 15:20 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c N Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-24 15:20 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable seq Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-24 15:20 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] tests: fix comment syntax in chainlint.sed for AIX sed Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-24 20:52 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-24 15:20 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] tests: use shorter here-docs " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-24 21:29 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-28 20:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-28 20:17 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-27 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-04 22:36 ` What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2018, #01; Tue, 4) Junio C Hamano
2018-09-05 9:14 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-05 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-05 18:44 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-05 9:50 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-05 20:31 ` Jeff King
2018-09-05 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-05 13:38 ` jc/rebase-in-c-9-fixes, was " Johannes Schindelin
2018-09-05 16:41 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <xmqqbm9b6gxs.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
2018-09-05 16:48 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-05 18:18 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-05 8:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-05 8:59 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-05 11:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-24 19:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-25 4:28 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-25 8:21 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-25 14:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-05 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-08-24 15:20 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] tests: fix version-specific portability issue in Perl JSON Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-24 20:41 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-24 15:20 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable grep --file Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 20:36 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] tests: fix version-specific portability issue in Perl JSON Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 20:36 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable grep --file Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-23 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-24 13:49 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-08-23 15:42 ` [PATCH] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c N Junio C Hamano
2018-08-23 17:24 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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