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other/2141: set -C in gccbug not portable
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- Subject: other/2141: set -C in gccbug not portable
- From: Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:28:55 +0100 (MET)
>Number: 2141
>Category: other
>Synopsis: set -C in gccbug not portable
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 01 12:36:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Rainer Orth
>Release: 3.0 20010221 (prerelease)
>Organization:
University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Technology
>Environment:
System: SunOS eiche 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
Architecture: sun4
host: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
build: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
target: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
configured with: /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-3.0-branch/configure --prefix=/vol/gcc --with-local-prefix=/vol/gcc --enable-shared --disable-nls
>Description:
gccbug uses set -C to avoid overwriting files with I/O redirection.
Unfortunately, this isn't portable: none of Solaris 2.8, IRIX 6.2, or Tru64 UNIX
V5.1 /bin/sh support it, while bash and ksh do.
>How-To-Repeat:
% /bin/sh ./gccbug
./gccbug: -C: bad option(s)
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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