Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 07:24:31 +0200
From: Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Sam Sirlin wrote on Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:41:03PM CEST:
> From: Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> /bin/bash --version
> echo $PATH
> type mkdir expr dirname basename
>
> dirname is apparently the issue. I had an old dirname shell script
> lying around from 1989 in my path (version 1.5). It worked well enough
> for the old 2.59 configure, but not for the new one which seems to
> use a new construction "dirname -- ..."
Is your script home-grown or does it have some wider usage? What does
it output upon
dirname -- /
It's old code from SVr2, so it may be lurking around on old systems. I
probably grabbed it someday before sun had added it in (sun4?).
kalessin{sam} > old_dirname -- /
.
sun solaris 9 has apparently a shell script v 1.7 (SVr4) that
behaves more like gnu:
kalessin{sam} > /usr/bin/dirname -- /
/
I've tried this and it works with the new configure.
? I'm asking because maybe we can easily rule that out as non-working,
maybe even just by
if (as_d=`dirname -- /` && test "$as_d" = /) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo good
else
echo bad
fi
Sam Sirlin
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