Re: GNUstep make Solaris 2.8 glitch

[Marcus Müller]

On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 12:05 PM, Nicola Pero wrote:
> No reason not to use it ... but would it fix the problem ?
>
> I think his problem was that he needed /bin/test to be executed instead 
> of
> the built-in test.

Exactly.

> Would using test rather [...] solve the problem, or would the built-in
> test still be used ?

It would. You definitely need to use /bin/sh on Solaris 8.

znek@lestat:(~)$ uname -a
SunOS lestat 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine


> I would assume - if it's a reasonable shell - the built-in test would
> still be used :-)

Correct. That's what it does.

I was thinking about something in config.make like

TEST=test

for all architectures except Solaris and

TEST=/bin/test

for Solaris. It conflicts with Nicola's otherwise well-thought argument 
to not use absolute paths, though. I don't know of any architectures 
except Solaris where it does make sense to use absolute paths, but 
Solaris still ships with many broken tools (awk to name one) that it 
almost seems necessary to provide at least some reasonable defaults for 
basic Solaris installations (the machine above happens to be almost 
clean, which gave me certain pains in the ass, I almost forgot how 
bug-ridden the default userland on that OS is).


Cheers,

  Marcus

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