Re: can't compile bash 4.1 under Solaris 8/9

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/6/10 9:54 AM, Yann Rouillard wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: sparc
> OS: solaris2.8
> Compiler: /opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='sparc'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='solaris2.8' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='sparc-sun-solaris2.8'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='sun' -DLOCALEDIR='/opt/csw/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bas  
> h' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSOLARIS   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib
> -I/opt/csw/include -xO3 -xarch=v8 -I/opt/csw/include
> uname output: SunOS build8s 5.8 Generic_Virtual sun4u sparc
> SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
> Machine Type: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> 
> Bash Version: 4.1
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> bash 4.1 can't be compiled under Solaris 8 and Solaris 9, the
> compilation stops at a vsnprintf redefinition error. This happens
> because the vsnprintf native function is not detected as being standard
> compliant (it returns -1 in case of overflow) by the configure script,
> hence bash redefine the function at compile time.

Bash compiles and runs fine under Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 using gcc.  In
fact, I test on those platforms before release.  I don't have or use the
Sun C compiler.

Chet
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