Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:20:09 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <20020924212009.77BDF2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020924211110.GB61277@nagual.pp.ru>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 14:05:38 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > This particular "feature" is going to cause a *huge* amount of pain. > > I wouldn't be suprised if it costs us anouther 500-1000 unbuldable ports. > > For ports we MUST set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in the bsd.port.mk No, this is the equivalent of sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that we dont have a problem. The Real World consists of much more than the ports tree. The problems that the ports tree has are the only indication that we have about how the rest of the Real World code will fare with our releases. Turn off the silly feature in sort(1) the first place. Let people request it by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 if they want to sort a filename that begins with a +. Or, use 'sort ./+file' like they would already have to do for just about every other unix OS on the planet. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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