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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:10:10PM +0600, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:24:46PM +0600, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> >>On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> >>>If you are not on Linux, the maxima_detect shell script needs the
> >>>following two changes:
> >>>a) #/bin/sh -> #/bin/bash
> >>>b) grep -> ggrep
> >>I see from the cvs log that the last change commited was
> >>#!/bin/bash -> #!/bin/sh
> >>
> >>Such changes always fix some systems but break others :-(
> >I now came to understand from several people that the right way to
> >make these things portable is to always use /bin/sh and avoid
> >any bash-specific features. What is wrong about using /bin/sh
> >on Solaris?
>
> type -p
> is bash-specific. We can change it back to
> which
> but then we screw cygwin, see Revision 1.3 in cvs

I think that we should rewrite a certain number of command-line
utilities in a portable way by ourselves (like realpath) and
ship them with TeXmacs. This seems to be the only clean soltion
to this kind of problem...

Best wishes, Joris

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• fixes for maxima plugin, TeXmacs 1.0.6, Kostas Oikonomou, 12/06/2005
  • Re: [TeXmacs] fixes for maxima plugin, TeXmacs 1.0.6, Andrey G. Grozin, 12/06/2005
    • Re: [TeXmacs] fixes for maxima plugin, TeXmacs 1.0.6, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/13/2005
      • Re: [TeXmacs] fixes for maxima plugin, TeXmacs 1.0.6, Andrey G. Grozin, 12/13/2005
        • Re: [TeXmacs] fixes for maxima plugin, TeXmacs 1.0.6, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/13/2005

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