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Date:      Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:55:51 +0400
From:      Alexander Pyhalov <alp@rsu.ru>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Marcus von Appen <mva@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Pronin <scher@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [ GSOC ] Differences in shell behaviour
Message-ID:  <4FC85967.8010300@rsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4FC81F15.5010008@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4E946838-4F3B-421A-839E-05E1A01464AB@FreeBSD.org> <4FC81F15.5010008@FreeBSD.org>

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Hello.

On 06/01/2012 05:47, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 5/31/2012 12:21 PM, Alexander Pronin wrote:
>> But, is it suitable to write sh script for 9.0, that does not work in 8.3?
>
> No. Our tools need to work in all supported versions of FreeBSD, which
> at this time includes 7 as well.

I see two points...
First one is that parallel building is an optional feature wich can be 
made conditionally available for systems with $OSVERSION >= 900000.
The second one is the following. Is the difference in sh behavior 
intentional? Can it be considered a bug and thus the right thing is to 
fix it in FreeBSD 7/8? However, as it leads to difference in shell 
behavior, it can be undesirable.



-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University



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