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Re: FYI : [bug #5618] make 3.80 does not configure under SunOS4 -> [solution !] |
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Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:34:54 -0500 |
%% Frédéric DUARTE <address@hidden> writes:
fd> After a little period of time (4 months!) without worrying about
fd> it, I restarted analysing that problem and I found that the old
fd> original shell interpreter wasn't compatible enough with the new
fd> configure script provided in version 3.80 ... Or the script was
fd> not compatible with the original shell interpreter !
I found various reports in autoconf that the shell shipped with SunOS
has a serious bug in it which is tickled by configure scripts.
It doesn't appear to me that the autoconf developers have any intention
of changing the autoconf-generated output to avoid this bug. I don't
know if Sun released any patches to fix it before they gave up on SunOS
4.x altogether.
You might have better luck asking on that mailing list for more help,
but there's not much GNU make can do about this. Sorry about that :-/.
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