Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 04:58:11PM CEST: >> On 09/08/2010 08:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >Besides, isn't Irix 5.x approaching effective museum-only status? >> >> Probably, but I don't (yet) have access to Irix 6.5 to test a newer >> version of that platform. > > sh and ksh on IRIX 6.5 also produce output, but at least both now > prepend '+ ', and ineligible bsh also prints 'P=1'. No bash in > /usr/bin here.
Thanks, Ralf. Irix 6.5 is slated to have support at least until December 2013, so I may be stuck... Hmm... an alternative solution is simply to disable the VERBOSE=yes -> "set -x" code on offending systems. That will make debugging things a little harder (when using the broken shells), but that's still better than the alternative.
