> I think it's a good idea to move forward towards full ANSI compliance
> here, but on the other hand I can understand the concerns of those
> who are worried about how badly this breaks things.

It doesn't break many modern software packages.  i dunno about older
ones.


> Has someone
> gone and actually done this on a system and compiled up the usual
> lot of software to see how painful this change really is?

NetBSD/Alpha has never defined "unix", and i've never had a software
package fail to compile because of _that_.  (lots becuase of 64-bit
problems, lots because they didn't have configurations for
NetBSD/Alpha, but none because of 'unix'.)

There were a few problems with sources in the NetBSD source tree, but
i think they've all been dealt with.



chris