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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: mp39590@gmail.com, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: add compatibility layer
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 07:24:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw9y2q8i.fsf@rocinante.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161220194705.46874-1-mp39590@gmail.com>

mp39590@gmail.com writes:

>  
> +# OS independent functions
> +#
> +# Alias native BSD utilities to usable GNU equivalents.
> +case `uname` in
> +FreeBSD)
> +	# allow using aliases in scripts
> +	shopt -s expand_aliases
> +
> +	alias date=gdate
> +	alias base64=gbase64
> +	alias gdb=$BSD_GDB
> +	alias wc=gwc
> +	alias sed="gsed"
> +	alias sha256sum=gsha256sum
> +	;;
> +esac
> +

What about adding (most of) this to sh.config by the configure script?
I'd like to centralize all hacky platform detection there.

Also, why is gsed in quotes but none of the others are?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-20 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-20 19:47 [PATCH] tests: add compatibility layer mp39590
2016-12-20 22:24 ` David Bremner [this message]
2016-12-21  5:12   ` Tomi Ollila
2016-12-21 14:56   ` Mikhail
2016-12-22  9:31   ` mp39590
2016-12-31 11:03     ` David Bremner
2017-01-02 13:57       ` mp39590
2017-01-03 15:48         ` Tomi Ollila
2017-01-03 15:52           ` Tomi Ollila
2017-01-03 17:21           ` Tomi Ollila
2017-01-04  1:57           ` Mikhail
2016-12-31 15:17     ` Tomi Ollila
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-09 13:32 David Bremner
2017-03-09 15:47 ` Tomi Ollila
2017-03-24 20:33 ` Mikhail
2017-03-25 11:10   ` David Bremner

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