"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, the Bourne shell on SGI IRIX 6 supports shell functions
OK, thanks, I looked into the matter further and installed this patch,
which should do the trick in the next gzip distribution. I assume
that the command
test "$(expr 3 + 4)" -eq 7
"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> It could well be that the 'configure' is not finding a
>>> POSIX-compatible shell on SGI IRIX MIPS, even though such a shell does
>>> exist. If so, we can focus on getting that to work; that should fix
>>> the problem with zgrep.
>
> If you nee
"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem is that the newer $(...) syntax introduced by POSIX is not
> understood by older shells.
Thanks. Unfortunately zgrep is not easy to port to the `...` syntax
used by older shells, since it uses nested $(... $(...) ...), and
nesting `.
Thanks for the patches to gzip-1.3.10; I applied them and made a new
local distribution called gzip-1.3.10.p1, and then redid several
builds on each of the three systems for which I reported failure.
All builds now pass on Solaris 7 SPARC and DEC Alpha OSF/1 4.0.
The SGI IRIX MIPS builds still fa
"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Today, I attempted to repeat this success with the new gzip-1.3.10,
> but got failures like this on Sun Solaris 7 SPARC, SGI IRIX MIPS, DEC
> Alpha OSF/1 systems:
>
> ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz gzip.doc.gz
> diff: /dev/fd/3: Bad file numbe
Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
On 28-Dec-2006, I successfully built, validated, and installed
gzip-1.3.9 on 20+ flavors of Unix in our local test lab.
I think I want your lab! :-) (I have access to a pretty wide range of
systems, but even counting major OS versions separately, I don't know if
I ha
On 28-Dec-2006, I successfully built, validated, and installed
gzip-1.3.9 on 20+ flavors of Unix in our local test lab.
Today, I attempted to repeat this success with the new gzip-1.3.10,
but got failures like this on Sun Solaris 7 SPARC, SGI IRIX MIPS, DEC
Alpha OSF/1 systems:
./zdiff -c
