Dear all, I solved this problem (installing libevent on an old Solaris without root access) by installing the previous version: 2.0.20. Somehow everything went fine now...
For myself, I don't really need to know why 2.0.21 wouldn't compile, but if you are interested in researching it further, I am glad to provide you with more details. Best, Johan On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> wrote: > Johan Commelin writes: >> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The stock shell on (old) solaris is most ancient and has a number of >> > quirks. >> > >> > If /usr/xpg4/bin/sh exists, I recommend you do whatever you can to >> > invoke that instead. >> >> I do have bash available on the box. That's what I run as login shell. >> I have not checked what shell I was dropped into, but I guess it is >> also bash: the prompt has the same formatting. >> >> What exactly do you mean with invoking /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ? Should I put >> the directory /usr/xpg4/bin/ to the front of my $PATH ? > > That may or may not be enough - the 'configure' process will sometimes > look thinks up to get the fully-rooted path, and then use that. > > See http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html and look > for CONFIG_SHELL. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Defining-Variables > may help. > > H > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
