Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #8955] nonportable contsruct in shell script

"Greg Troxel via RT" <[email protected]>
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"Greg Hudson via RT" <[email protected]> writes:

> I assume this showed up in a scan of all the shell scripts in the tree with
> some tool, and wasn't something that caused a problem in practice? The ccapi
> directory only gets built on Windows (and used to get build as part of Kerberos
> for Macintosh, but that's long defunct).

Yes.   pkgsrc checks for non-portable constructs, because if installed
they could cause a run-time defect.   We can exclude things with a
control statement.    That said, I favor standards conformance unless it
causes a problem.

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