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Re: ./configure generated script fails on solaris


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: ./configure generated script fails on solaris
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 11:40:32 -0400
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On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 11:36:28AM +0200, 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.

I do test-compiles on a Solaris 10 x86 machine.
(I've Solaris 11 machines, but it looks like 10 was the high point for Sun).
 
> Trying to compile 6.1 version, if fails on line 1206 probably because a gnu

It's in the release notes for 6.0 (August 2015) here:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce-6.0.html#h3-config-config

with an example after this comment:

        This mainly affects Solaris (the other vendor unix systems have
        followed the POSIX guidelines for the past twenty years). 

> bash extension. #!/bin/sh is NOT bash on solaris

none of my configure scripts depend on bash features.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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