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Re: FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure


From: Nicolas Joly
Subject: Re: FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:59:58 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:31:22PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Nicolas Joly wrote on Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:27:25PM CEST:
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:35:00PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Nicolas Joly wrote on Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:10:47PM CEST:
> > > > 
> > > > In the mean time, i tested the solution where `print -r' and `ksh'
> > > > tests are swapped (attached patch). It seems to go a little further
> > > > (no more `print' error messages), but seems to fail in another ksh
> > > > problem/bug :
> 
> [ which ends in a segmentation fault. ]
> 
> > > Please rerun the libtool command line with --debug and post output,
> > > you may pack (gzip, bzip2).
> > 
> > libtool.dbg.bz2 attached.
> 
> OK, let's cut this testing a little short.  It seems that Tru64 fails to
> provide any decent kind of shell for its users.
> 
> I consider just putting a note about Tru64 into README (branch-1-5)
> resp. doc/notes.texi (HEAD).   Proposal would be one of the following
> (whichever works and passes the test suite):
> 
> | Note that Tru64 V5.1B ksh has some bugs which make it hardly useable for
> | libtoolized packages.  Please set
> |   BIN_SH=xpg4; export BIN_SH
> | in your environment for configuring and building.

This one does not work ... It will solve the `print' problem, but will
lead to the shell crash a little later.

with `BIN_SH=xpg4' set, `/usr/bin/posix/sh' is executed instead of the
classic `/bin/sh'; and, unfortunately, this is a hard link to `ksh'.

address@hidden [~]> ls -ldi /usr/bin/posix/sh /usr/bin/ksh 
  482 -rwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin       307248 Oct 16  2002 /usr/bin/ksh
  482 -rwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin       307248 Oct 16  2002 /usr/bin/posix/sh

> | Note that Tru64 V5.1B ksh has some bugs which make it hardly useable for
> | libtoolized packages.  Please set
> |   lt_ECHO='printf %s\\n'; export lt_ECHO
> | in your environment for configuring and building.
> 
> (s/lt_ECHO/ECHO/g for branch-1-5).

Will test, and report.

> What do you think?  Which one?  Could one of the Tru64 users be bothered
> to send a bug report to HP?

Sorry i can't.

Our sysadmins tried to have a software support contract from
Digital/Compaq for many years, but didn't get any succes ! They give
up when HP came up ...

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.




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