FW: [Bug: 21.5-b27] configure errors on Solaris

[Rodney Sparapani]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Ron Isaacson writes:
> 
>  > cheap hack. I have no idea why this would work on Linux but fail on
>  > Solaris, although I do note that CONFIG_SHELL ends up being /bin/bash
>  > on Linux and /bin/ksh on Solaris, so perhaps it's something
>  > ksh-specific. Any ideas?
> 
> Solaris is well(?)-known for this kind of failure mode (see also
> /usr/ucb/bin/cc, IIRC, and everybody's favorite utility, Solaris tar).
> 
> I think we're reasonably good about keeping bash-isms out of our
> configure script, but I don't think ksh is close enough to Bourne sh
> to work.  And there's no guarantee that Solaris's ksh is the same as
> other ksh's.  It might even be buggy. ;-)
> 
> I would try to force a Bourne shell.  I'll see if I can find a ksh
> somewhere and try that on Linux and Mac OS X.

Sun decided to support POSIX with an entirely separate set of utilities. 
  Not very user friendly, but they should do the trick.  I have 
CONFIG_SHELL set to /usr/xpg4/bin/sh

Rodney