Re: ./configure generated script fails on solaris

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On 10/21/18 11:36 AM, Christian Jullien wrote:
> Hello maintainers,
>
> Thank you for your efforts to maintains and improve bcurses.
>
> I have an old solaris 10 sparc box where I port many GNU packages.
>
> Trying to compile 6.1 version, if fails on line 1206 probably because a gnu bash extension. 
> #!/bin/sh is NOT bash on solaris

That's right - and /bin/sh is not a POSIX-shell (it's in /usr/xpg4/ on older 
Solaris)


> Trying bash ./configure is little bit better but still fails with:
>
> ./config.status: syntax error at line 1178: `(' unexpected
>
> I finally changed the shebang to my local copy of bash but is still failed call config.status. 
> I patched this file too and ran ./config.status and it worked this time.
>
> make install fails for the same reason because it uses /bin/sh
>
> This strange! I use many ./configure script and this is the first time I have to patch those 
> two generated files.
>
> Am I missing something?

You have to change 2 files as follows:

--- configure.orig      2018-09-01 21:37:24.000000000 +0200
+++ configure   2018-10-21 13:51:48.572124164 +0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /bin/sh
+#! /bin/ksh
 # From configure.in Revision: 1.665 .
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated by Autoconf 2.52.20180819.
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 cross_compiling=no
 subdirs=
 MFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS=
-SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}
+SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/ksh}


--- aclocal.m4.orig     2018-08-18 22:21:21.000000000 +0200
+++ aclocal.m4  2018-10-21 13:51:38.636242999 +0200
@@ -7567,7 +7567,7 @@
 dnl But that still does not work properly since the macro is expanded outside
 dnl the CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro:
 dnl
-dnl    #!/bin/sh
+dnl    #!/bin/ksh
 dnl    ACLOCAL=`aclocal --print-ac-dir`
 dnl    if test -z "$ACLOCAL" ; then
 dnl            echo cannot find aclocal directory


This works for me on Solaris.
(I have no idea how to change this in a generic way for all platforms, though)

Regards
Vassili


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