On Saturday 05 June 2010, Toby Thain wrote: > > <rant> > > I'm not sure why Solaris has been insisting for ages now in shipping > > default tools that are either old, with less features or downright broken. > > It's not just about sh; other popular tools like awk are also pretty much > > unusable by default under Solaris; one needs to use the POSIX-compliant > > versions that are under /usr/xpg4/bin/. > > </rant> > > Most of the common GNU utilities (including gcc) are in the standard > Solaris install, either via /usr/sfw/ or by using g prefix (e.g. gawk, > gmake).
Possibly, but it still means that either scripts using standard names and expecting standard functionality have to be changed, or the system has to be changed to have the standard-named utilites point to the GNU versions. -- D.
