Re: Autoconf 2.61 and Solaris and tr regression from 2.59

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Roger,

Thanks for the report.

* Roger Jarrett wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:52:35PM CEST:
> Used Autoconf to build configure for hdf5;  this worked correctly for
> version 2.59 of Autoconf
> 
>  However, in 2.61 the tr test on Solaris does not work for /usr/bin/tr

I'm pretty sure this is an issue with the HDF5 code, and not the change
of Autoconf version.  Autoconf itself does not provide a test for tr at
all.  Looking at
<ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.6.5-RELEASE.txt>, it is
stated that:

| New Features
| ============
|     Configuration:
|     -------------------------
[...]
|         - Configure now recognizes the TR variable as the location of
|           the tr utility.  JML 2005/10/20

Consequently, I assume that you should get things to work with
  ./configure TR=/usr/xpg4/bin/tr

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf