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Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and NetBSD



Jeff Licquia <licquia%linuxfoundation.org@localhost> writes:

> Do you maintain any documentation of "common Linux-isms" that hinder
> porting to NetBSD?  I suspect that the list would be good developer
> documentation for more reasons than just porting.

I don't.  But the things I run into are:

  use of ==, or other non-POSIX sh extensions

  assumption that there is a binary called python (long story, but in
  pkgsrc there is not, but instead python2.5, python2.6, etc. because
  one must bind to a particular version at package creation time,
  otherwise you have a mess when you change what 'python' is bound to).

  hard-coded paths (typically in progams that don't use autoconf)

Then there is of course programs that use beyond-POSIX kernel features
without a plan for being ifdef'd for variosu operating systems.

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