Re: GNUstep make Solaris 2.8 glitch

[Nicola Pero]

> Hi Nicola,
> 
> hope you're fine. I just got my hands on a (slow) Solaris 2.8 box. First 
> thing I did was install a fresh-from-cvs GNUstep on that box. Then I 
> compiled the ED* frameworks and noticed a build failure that I didn't 
> expect. It turns out that in target build-framework-dirs of 
> Instance/framework.make all [ ! -L foo ] tests fail due to Solaris' 
> /bin/sh not offering the -L test (failure is: "test: expected argument 
> missing"). Instead, I had to rewrite all occurences with  /bin/test ! -L 
> foo (which works). Not sure how one could rewrite that easily and still 
> remain portable, probably by introducing something like platform.make in 
> the NeXT makefile packages?

Hi - I'm still not sure how to fix this problem - we do have platform
specific configurations, but I'm not sure it would help with this.

Maybe someone else has a good suggestion.