Subject: Re: pkgsrc/mk patch for solaris
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/27/2002 20:58:55
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 02:48:57PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Sunday, October 27, 2002 at 19:29:39 (+0100), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
> > Subject: pkgsrc/mk patch for solaris
> >
> > I still need the attached patch on Solaris, because, I guess, of
> > differences between solaris and NetBSD /bin/sh.
> > It doesn't seem to cause any problems on NetBSD.
> >
> > Should I commit it ?
>
> A better fix might be to fix nbmake so that when built on SunOS it does
> "The Right Thing(tm)" for the native /bin/sh when it expands variables
> with the ':Q' modifier.
Or work out precisly why the quoted output is broken.
After all both shell's quoting should follow the same rules :-)
David
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