non-portable sh in configure.ac (breaks on Solaris)
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Key: COUCHDB-975
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-975
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Build System
Affects Versions: 0.8
Environment: OpenSolaris (will affect other Solaris versions, too)
SunOS osol-x86 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
Reporter: Timothy Smith
Get this when running configure:
...
checking for erl... /export/home/tim/c/build-couchdb/build/bin/erl
./configure[12123]: : cannot execute [Is a directory]
/opt/csw/bin/gsed: -e expression #1, char 9: unterminated `s' command
./configure[12123]: /g: not found [No such file or directory]
./configure[12125]: test: argument expected
./configure[12129]: test: argument expected
./configure[12133]: test: argument expected
checking for erlc... /export/home/tim/c/build-couchdb/build/bin/erlc
...
A patch to fix it is:
commit 6b018d087ba8ddaf3789e106ade9b74488de5136
Author: Timothy Smith <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Dec 2 23:13:10 2010 -0700
Fix syntax error with /bin/sh on Solaris
The RHS of an assignment is implicitly quoted in Bourne shell. Not
all shells (in particular, not /bin/sh in Solaris) can handle nested
double-quotes like foo="`bar "baz"`", and it's always safe to not
use the outer set.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c609a08..73ea9fe 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ fi
erlang_version_error="The installed Erlang version is less than 5.6.5 (R12B05).
-version="`${ERL} -version 2>&1 | ${SED} "s/[[^0-9]]/ /g"`"
+version=`${ERL} -version 2>&1 | ${SED} "s/[[^0-9]]/ /g"`
if test `echo $version | ${AWK} "{print \\$1}"` -lt 5; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([$erlang_version_error])
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