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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFH] Solaris portability
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:46:47 -0800
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Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm> writes:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> This makes me wonder if treating it just like strcasestr() might be
>> simpler.  Could folks with access to Solaris boxes of different
>> vintages please see if the attached patch makes sense?
>
> I think the patch makes sense as neither Solaris 8, 9 nor 10 supports
> mkdtemp().
>
>> Can we also unify UNSETENV, SETENV, C99_FORMAT and STRTOUMAX, by the
>> way?
>
> No.
>
> I've just checked on our Solaris Sparc systems, and found that the
> C-library provides unsetenv(), setenv() and strtoumax() beginning with
> Solaris 10; also the 'man sprintf' page mentions the 'z' and 't'
> specifiers for printf (which is what is behind C99_FORMAT) only
> beginning with Solaris 10.
>
> So workarounds are needed for all 4 cases for Solaris 8 and 9 but not 10.

Thank you very much for detailed information.