Re: [Pnet-developers] Bad Substitution Error

[Glenn Chambers]

On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 09:40 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to .NET and wanted to play around with Portable .NET on 
> Solaris,
> but I'm having problems installing it.  I got through configure, make, 
> and
> make check, but when I make install, I'm getting the following error
> message...
>
> a="/usr/local/bin/cli-unknown-ar"; b=.${a%/*}/b; c="/usr/ccs/bin/ar";
> d=.${c%/*}//; e=; \
>   while [ ."${b%%/*}" = ."${d%%/*}" ]; do b=${b#*/}; d=${d#*/}; done; \
>   while [ ."$b" != ."b" ]; do b=${b#*/}; e=../$e; done;         \
>   ln -s "$e${d%/}${c##*/}" "$a"
> /bin/sh: bad substitution

It looks as though the Makefile's shell fragment isn't sufficiently 
portable.
Some versions of the Solaris shells are known to be 'weak'.  This comes 
up
on the GCC mailing lists from time to time, and I think the install 
notes
there mention the need to use a non-default shell when configuring and 
installing
GCC.

Try setting the SHELL environment variable to the full path to 'ksh', 
whatever
it is (Probably /bin/ksh).  If that doesn't work, try installing 'bash' 
and
setting that.  I don't have a pnet checkout handy at the moment, so I 
can't
verify that setting the environment variable is enough; you may have to 
set
the SHELL parameter in the Makefile instead.

Glenn Chambers
Toledo, OH