[MPlayer-cvslog] r23335 - in trunk: configure vidix/Makefile

Jan Knutar jknutar at nic.fi
Mon May 28 15:18:30 CEST 2007


On Sunday 27 May 2007 21:35, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 18:42:01 +0200
>
> Yes. It's sick how much outdated stuff there is in
> the standard path[1]. But don't even try to start
> thinking like these Linux=Unix people and assume
> that everyone uses a GNU userland.
>
>    Attila Kinali
>
> [1] Yes, there is a modern version of nearly all standard
> tools available on solaris in /usr/xpg4/bin/, but hardly
> anyone seems to know it.

I recently got a Solaris machine, and after first stumbling on to grep 
not working the way I wanted, I read the grep man page, 
found /usr/xpg4/bin/grep, was pointed to the standards(5) man page, 
which conveniently had the $PATH you need to get Posix :-)

Why it isn't standard to get posix environment instead of ancient SunOS 
environment I don't know... Backward compatibility by default?




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