[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.5 configure script issues

[John Bowler]

From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:vapier at gentoo.org] 
>> >> 1) Solaris /bin/sh doesn't grok $(...)
>> $(sed foo) is a bashism for `sed foo`
>>
>>that isnt true at all.  $(...) has been in POSIX for years.

Yes, someone corrected me at the time: "$(sed foo) is a POSIXism for `sed foo`".

The problem is that there is a Bourne shell variant on Solaris that isn't POSIX compliant in this respect.  (Indeed, I think this is because /bin/sh really is *the* Bourne code, and I know that /bin/awk is original un-fixed Kernighan code.)

Solaris, without extra packages (using the system programs from /bin) is a problem.

John Bowler <jbowler at acm.org>