Klaus Heinz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in devel/gettext-tools the check for portable shell syntax encounters a
> problem on IRIX 6.
> 
> The function from mk/check/check-subr.awk
> 
>   function cs_warning_msg(msg) { 
>         printf("WARNING: [%s] %s\n", cs_progname, msg) > "/dev/stderr";
>   }
> produces messages like this:
> 
>   Cannot open /dev/stderr: Permission denied
>   Input record number 55
>   Source line number 47
> 
> due to the permissions
>   -rw-r--r--    1 root     sys           46 Dec 18 04:16 /dev/stderr
> 
> And as I look at this file, I notice that it is not a character device
> file and that /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout are missing on IRIX. Obviously
> the file was created by user 'root' (added to Bcc:) during some package
> installation.
> 
> It looks like the check for portability needs to be more... what can I
> say :-).. more portable.

I've fixed it. Thanks.

Roland