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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org> writes:

[…]

 > Alas, many GNU packages abandoned every portability guideline in the
 > book long ago.  Most of the maintainers behave as if GNU/Linux is the
 > only system in the world worth catering to.

 > Just the last week, I needed to craft my own version of `mktemp'
 > because the Texinfo test suite used it.  `mktemp' is part of GNU
 > Coreutils,

	Though it was added somewhat recently:

- --cut: coreutils-8.5/NEWS --
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.90 (2007-12-01) [beta]

** New programs

…

  mktemp: create a temporary file or directory (or names)
- --cut: coreutils-8.5/NEWS --

	In particular, Debian 5.0 (Lenny, current oldstable) shipped
	mktemp(1) separately from GNU Coreutils [1]

[1] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/mktemp

 > which you can only expect to be present on GNU/Linux.

	And what's about GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd, I wonder?

 > And that's just an example, of which I saw too many in the recent
 > years.

	Well, supporting a single system preasumably requires less
	effort than supporting many.  On the other hand, I doubt that
	there's a free software package whose maintainers will oppose
	any volunteers' effort to improve portability.

	If seen this way, it appears that it's the lack of such
	volunteers that makes software non-portable.

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