[ GSOC ] Differences in shell behaviour

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hello.

On 06/01/2012 05:47, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 5/31/2012 12:21 PM, Alexander Pronin wrote:
>> But, is it suitable to write sh script for 9.0, that does not work in 8.3?
>
> No. Our tools need to work in all supported versions of FreeBSD, which
> at this time includes 7 as well.

I see two points...
First one is that parallel building is an optional feature wich can be 
made conditionally available for systems with $OSVERSION >= 900000.
The second one is the following. Is the difference in sh behavior 
intentional? Can it be considered a bug and thus the right thing is to 
fix it in FreeBSD 7/8? However, as it leads to difference in shell 
behavior, it can be undesirable.



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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University