In article <200503241613.j2OGDhg5004502@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>,
John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
>On Aug 14,  3:03am, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>} 
>} Are we the only OS requiring -R?
>
>     No, Solaris requires it as well.  Given how long it has been
>required I'm surprised at the number of Makefiles that I have to
>modify.  Sometimes it can be done with environment variables or
>arguments to configure scripts, but that doesn't always work right.

Another datapoint to support Solaris' fading popularity. It used
to be the case that things would work only on Solaris... Funny how
Sun seems to be following Digitals path...

christos