Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:43:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209241542400.66567-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20020924212009.77BDF2A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 14:05:38 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > > This particular "feature" is going to cause a *huge* amount of pain. > > > I wouldn't be suprised if it costs us anouther 500-1000 unbuldable ports. > > > > For ports we MUST set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in the bsd.port.mk > > No, this is the equivalent of sticking our heads in the sand and pretending > that we dont have a problem. The Real World consists of much more than > the ports tree. The problems that the ports tree has are the only indication > that we have about how the rest of the Real World code will fare with > our releases. > > Turn off the silly feature in sort(1) the first place. Let people request > it by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 if they want to sort a filename that > begins with a +. Or, use 'sort ./+file' like they would already have to > do for just about every other unix OS on the planet. > > Cheers, > -Peter Amen, 100% agree. Please do it this way. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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