Re: Test for BSD subsystem
Re: Test for BSD subsystem
- Subject: Re: Test for BSD subsystem
- From: Giuliano Gavazzi <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:21:14 +0000
At 21:31 -0800 2003/01/12, John W Baxter wrote:
At 13:30 +0000 1/12/2003, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
me% which perl
/usr/bin/perl
after all the presence of a binary is not a guarantee that the binary
will be in the path.
Nor is the presence of a binary any guarantee that binary will work in the
absence of the BSD subsystem. Certainly one can write a Perl script that
wouldn't work. You may or may not be able to get Terminal to work
usefully. The Mac OS X GUI may or may not work usefully.
even if you can write a perl script that does not work does not mean
that perl does not work, but I admit that perl was a bad example.
Testing a system without BSD Subsystem remains the best way to sample what
doesn't work. I'm expecting you will find that enough doesn't work that
systems without BSD Subsystem aren't an issue.
Then there is not even a need to test a BSD subsystem, one should
just rely on the Archive.bom, and, as you said, find out that systems
without BSD are dead..
Still there is never a guarantee against screw up, the only decent on
would be to run something like what configure scripts do.
Giuliano
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