On 2016-10-26, at 8:53 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: >>> Ha! And I was just last week defending HP-UX as still being a relevant >>> platform for GNU applications! See: >>> >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-10/msg00116.html >>> >>> Anyway, thanks for the port to HP-UX. I installed the attached patch into >>> Gnulib and it should appear in the next grep release, so I am somewhat >>> boldly marking this bug as done. >> >> Nice. Thank you both! > > I've just pushed the gnulib-updating commit, then realized that this > merits a NEWS entry, so wrote/pushed that, too.
Wow! Whether HP-UX is still relevant I can't say but $3 billion would pay for a lot of development. Gcc still works on HP-UX and based on our Debian package count, it's working better than ever: https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid Dave -- John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell.net
