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From: seindal@diku.UUCP (Rene Seindal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Re: Cornell V1.2 Bug Report (1/5)
Message-ID: <3237@diku.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-May-87 08:48:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: diku.3237
Posted: Mon May 25 08:48:20 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 27-May-87 00:55:08 EDT
Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
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In article <369@rlvd.UUCP> news@rlvd.UUCP (News) writes:

>This problem is that the System V basename(1) (or at least the one we
>have in the att universe on our Pyramid) allows invocations of the form:

>	basename filename .[cC]
>	
>which has the expected (to sh(1) users) effect. The fix I came up with for
>the older basename(1) was to use:

>	case $A in
>	*.c)	B=`basename $A .c`
>		;;
>	*.C)	B=`basename $A .C`
>		;;
>	esac

This is actually one of the nastiest bugs in CC under Berkeley UNIX, since
one can't bring up the system before it is fixed.  I think Bjarne should be
aware of such sysV dependencies for the next release.  As far as I could
see, the distribution (of 1.2) could not run on anything but sysV.  This is
not acceptable for a commercially distributed system.

Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.UUCP).
The Computer Department, Institute of Datalogy, U. of Copenhagen.