[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.5 configure script issues

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday, July 07, 2010 19:24:24 John Bowler wrote:
> 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.

yeah, i dont have a Solaris system to check atm, but i recall there being a 
/usr/gnu/ tree or something with newer utils.  autoconf searches this for sane 
usable tools.
-mike
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