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Re: POSIXLY_CORRECT and install scripts



On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 19:59, Greg Stark wrote:
> It would be a good idea to have developers set POSIXLY_CORRECT at least once
> during testing their packages to ensure they aren't depending on some
> non-posix GNU behaviour in their packages. Ideally at least some developers
> should use it all the time to avoid such bugs at run-time.

What's the problem with depending on GNU behaviour? IIRC even the
Debian-BSD folk are going to be using the GNU runtime.



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