Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 4.3BSD doesn't!
>
> Is /bin/sh the only Bourne shell-like shell available on the system?
Yes! And it isn't "Bourne shell-like", it *is* *the* Bourne shell, by Steve
Bourne himself.
> No /bin/ksh, /bin/sh5 or some other extended shell that supports shell
> functions?
No! 4.3BSD doesn't have *anything* "extended" or SysVile, it is *absolutely
pure UNIX*!
> If that's true, you've just solved one of the
> long-standing doubts the new autoconf maintainers have had for quite
> some time.
OK, so the Gnu's-Not-UNIX crusaders against UNIX don't actually know the system
they are fighting against / trying to replace, right?
Guys, I have to make a point here. I'm no fan of GNU in general and much prefer
my pure UNIX system. But I do want to use gcc and binutils to cross-compile for
embedded systems. (And these embedded systems serve quite a noble purpose, some
of them have to do with biomedical research that some day will give people who
are currently surgically mutilated beyond repair a second chance at normal
life.) I thought that the GNU system was specifically designed so that
individual components like gcc could be installed on an existing ostensibly
non-GNU pure UNIX system one by one as the user sees fit, without forcing
him/her to make the rest of the system GNU.
4.3BSD is *the* reference pure UNIX ostensibly non-GNU system. So gcc *must*
build on it in order to be able to say that it really meets the GNU project's
goal of being installable as an individual component on an existing non-GNU
system. And I'm here to make gcc build on 4.3BSD pure UNIX. I'm doing my part
by testing it and submitting patches for where it breaks, but obviously the
maintainers have to do their part by accepting them. I'll be pounding very hard
to make that happen. "We don't care about 4.3BSD" is not an excuse. You have to
in order to be able to say that you really work as GNU intended.
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