[illumos-Developer] Need short help with testing { sed, tr, pax } replacement binaries on i386 ...

[Piotr Jasiukajtis]

FYI,

I use these binaries in illumos_146. So far all broken services are
fixed (ogl-select, time-slider).
Since they are all 64bit I use only 64bit kernel.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> ----
>
> I've uploaded a first _test_ version of the { /usr/bin/sed,
> /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tr and /usr/bin pax } replacement binaries
> for i386 to http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/solaris/illumos/posixcore20100701_i386_001.tar.bz2
> It would be nice if someone could do some testing within the next two
> days (I can't right now (but I'd like to have some feedback that I can
> do bughunting in my spare time), we're busy with our 2nd baby) with
> the main focus whether "sed" and "tr" work without problems when
> building OS/Net ("pax" is secondary for now).
>
> Notes:
> - These are _debug_ binaries. They are big, slow (this is expected if
> you turn the optimiser off and enable builtin memory corruption
> checks) and have utility libraries like libast linked statically
> (causing major code bloat, for example the final size of /usr/bin/sed
> with libast dynamically linked is around 18k)
> - The binaries are i386 only for now
> - "tr" currently lacks option "-C" required by SUSv3. This is
> currently being under development.
> - The "sed" version will not 100% be backwards compatible to
> /usr/bin/sed. Please read
> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/086/20100310_olga.kryzhanovska
> (main issue is thaty /usr/bin/sed has pretty much unpredictable
> behaviour for characters, sometimes treating them as
> character==multibyte character and sometimes as character==bytes. The
> new version just uses character==multibyte character and uniformly
> uses regex instead of a wildly-hacked mismatch tacked on top of
> regexp)
> - The binaries were _not_ compiled from within OS/Net. I'll post
> updated binaries after the OS/Net integration, _maybe_ this weekend
>
> ----
>
> Bye,
> Roland
>
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