Re: GNUstep make Solaris 2.8 glitch

[Adam Fedor]

Nicola Pero wrote:
> > 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.

I think 'test' is generally more portable than '[ ... ]' (In fact it's 
already used in one place in framework.make.) Is there any reason why it 
should not be used?

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