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Re: [sed-devel] build feedback for sed-4.2.2.177-a348
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Nelson H. F. Beebe |
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Re: [sed-devel] build feedback for sed-4.2.2.177-a348 |
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Tue, 6 Dec 2016 17:29:13 -0700 |
>> These two are actual sed failures - can you provide more details about the
>> "borel" system?
borel is a Sun Blade 1500 (1 2GHz Intel Core-2, 8GB RAM) running
Oracle Solaris 11.3. It is on a maintenance contract, and is kept
up-to-date with the latest Solaris patches, so it is as leading-edge
Solaris as we can get. Oracle is known to be working on Solaris 12
internally, but doesn't announce a timeline for it.
>> musl-libc implements only UTF-8, and returns values gnulib does not expect.
MUSL is definitely an outlier in the GNU/Linux world, but more
distributions are switching to it (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musl
). Its memory model poses problems for both emacs and tcsh. Still,
it is a ground-up redesign of -lc with the intent of being both
memory-compact, and POSIX compliant, so we should definitely try to
make most GNUware work on MUSL-based distributions.
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