> >>I don't think bash 5 has hit Debian sid yet. As for "commercial" UNIX > >>like Solaris, well, that platform is on life support and a nightmare to > >>deal with. So no sense in wasting time there anymore. > > > >I'm sorry to hear that Solaris is a nightmare. Solaris 11.4 (the current > >supported version) has bash 5 already included > > Way way OT.
All I wanted was to say is that you don't need to compile latest bash on Solaris (since you have mentioned that system) and that the build system lists build requirements while talking about it (as that was your original question). Cheers -- Vlad