[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.5 configure script issues

[John Bowler]

From: Alon Bar-Lev [mailto:alon.barlev at gmail.com] 
>> that isnt true at all.  $(...) has been in POSIX for years.
>> -mike
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>True, I have solaris-8 and I use zlib. $(...) is unsupported.

The problem was reported on "Solaris" by Fabian Groffen, he swapped to bash and then reported it works fine on "Solaris 10 x86 and sparc".

Presumably the /bin/sh on solaris-8 is different.  Configure definitely quite explicitly executes /bin/sh (and, given the way traditional Unices work it's difficult to see how it would execute anything else.)

Anyway, surely it's moot because `` works just fine - there are only two instances of $( in 1.2.5, one is the problem uname call, which is trivial to fix, the other is the definition of 'LDSHARED' on 'OSF1 V4*' which, weirdly, uses $(libdir).  I wonder if that might be an error?

John Bowler <jbowler at acm.org>