Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5

[Peter O'Gorman]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>      * m4/putenv.m4 (gl_FUNC_PUTENV): Require gl_STDLIB_H_DEFAULTS. Instead
>>      of defining putenv in config.h, just set REPLACE_PUTENV.
> 
> Thanks for doing that.  I had written something quite similar but you
> beat me to it.  One minor change, which I just installed, is to tell
> users that we're testing for compatibility for GNU as well as for
> SVID.  (GNU is more important and better known these days than SVID.)

The test for putenv("FOO") removing FOO from the environment is, as far
as I am aware, only a GNU putenv feature (well, misfeature in my
opinion), so it is probably best to delete the SVID portion entirely.

http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg09682.html

Peter