[Psi-devel] Re: Imminent release, call for testers

[Iain MacDonnell]

Magnus Henoch wrote on 06/20/05 11:21 AM:

> Solaris' /bin/sh is insufficient to run the configure script, if you
> want to pass command line arguments to it.  It's not POSIX compliant,
> so the easiest way to fix it is of course to use a compliant shell.

I think you may have that slightly backwards. Solaris supports IEEE
standards 1003.1 and 1003.2 (commonly known as POSIX.1 and POSIX.2).
The problem is that the configure script is not using POSIX-compliant
shell syntax. I complained about this before, and it got fixed, but
someone added more bash-style syntax in a later update. I've since
given up, and changed my build process to use "bash ./configure"
instead of just "./configure".

BTW. FWIW: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0699/6mgfuai9q?a=view


> The rest of the patch concerns Sun's C compiler not being the same as
> Sun's C++ compiler.  I have checked that this patch doesn't break
> building on Linux, so it should be okay.

I reported this a few months back also. Justin said it was on his
to-do list for qconf.

     ~Iain

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