The solution is to not put /bin in your PATH on OpenSolaris. /usr/bin is good enough.
Glenn Fowler wrote: > bash only attempts to be posix conforming when run with the --posix option > without --posix it is cafeteria conforming depending on gnu's whims > in a manner similar to the gnu $POSIXLY_CORRECT and getopts(3) > > as noted installing in > /usr/bin > will fix the problem, and is probably the correct solution, because on solaris > /bin is a symlink and /lib is not > /bin => /usr/bin > /lib > /usr/lib > and the firefox executable resides in /usr/lib > /usr/lib/firefox/firefox > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:41:40 -0700 (PDT) bugzilla-daemon at np.grommit.com > wrote: >> http://bugs.grommit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559 > >> ------- Comment #11 from roland.mainz at nrubsig.org 2008-07-22 06:41 PDT >> ------- >> I did some investigation and looked at the Linux packages (SuSE, Ubuntu, >> Debian, RedHat, Mandrake) to figure out why /bin/sh is a POSIX shell (e.g. >> "bash" in POSIX mode or "dash") but doesn't hit the problem. After some >> searching I realised that: >> 1. The script works when running as /usr/bin/firefox >> 2. /bin/ and /usr/bin are different directiries with different content on >> Linux >> 3. Linux distributions install this stuff in /usr/bin/ and not /bin/ > >> ... so technicially we have a Solaris-specific problem caused by switching >> /usr/bin/sh from original Bourne to a POSIX-conformant shell... ;-( > >> As solution I'd propose to apply the proposed patch from comment #10 and push >> this fix upstrean (mozilla.org), too... > > _______________________________________________ > ksh93-integration-discuss mailing list > ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss
