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Re: tr portability
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: tr portability |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:58:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> Since we are already stating in the generic INSTALL file, since 2008:
>
> On Solaris, don't put '/usr/ucb' early in your 'PATH'. This
> directory contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of
> these programs are available in '/usr/bin'. So, if you need '/usr/ucb'
> in your 'PATH', put it _after_ '/usr/bin'.
>
> your precautions above are coping with a situation that is unsupported
> anyway.
Ah thanks for the pointer
> In GNU gettext, many tests use "tr -d '\r'" since 2007 already, and no one
> ever has reported a problem with it.
But does it fail fatally when it doesn't work? tests/parser.sh in
libtasn1 did, and we got a report about this just a year or so ago, so I
guess the problem still exists somewhere.
/Simon
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