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coreutils build problem

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 19:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>
To: 20733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20733: coreutils build problem
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:42:31 +0100

2015-06-05 09:43:10 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
> 2015-06-04 16:51:49 -0700, Paul Eggert:
[...]
> > Ah, sorry, I was thinking of previous versions of POSIX, which
> > required at least one word after the 'in'.  You're right, the
> > current POSIX version doesn't require this any more.  So the Solaris
> > sh in question is conforming to the old POSIX standard but not to
> > the current one.
> [...]
> 
> Note that the Solaris (10 and before) sh in question is not a
> POSIX shell, it's still the Bourne shell which is not POSIX
> conformant in many different ways (the POSIX sh spec is based on
> a subset of ksh88, not the Bourne shell). In those Solaris
> systems, POSIX sh is /usr/xpg4/bin/sh (based on ksh88).
[...]

Well, the /usr/xpg4/bin/sh of Solaris 10 (based on ksh88i)
doesn't support "for i in; do" either. That "sh" would be
conforming to the older version of POSIX as you said.

-- 
Stephane
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