On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 09:26:12PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote in
> <zh7ooyaq5ntub...@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net>:
> |On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 08:43:20AM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> |> At Utah, I ran build attempts of lynx2.9.1 in more than 70 systems in
> |> our test farm. Of those, 59 built and validated successfully, and
> |> 2.9.1 is now the default version of lynx on all of our physical
> |> servers.
> |>
> |> The remaining failures are traced to just two issues:
> |>
> |> (1) On Solaris systems, configure fails like this:
> |>
> |> checking for DESTDIR... ./configure: syntax error at line 1343: `('
> |> unexpected
> |>
> |> The fix was simple: use a newer shell than /bin/sh:
> |>
> |> ksh ./configure ....
> |
> |That's been my recommendation for several years (actually, for tin,
> |I provided Urs with a script to alter the configure script, but don't
> |recall anyone else commenting on it) - I posted a copy here:
> |
> | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2019-02/msg00033.html
> |
> |Either way, I've been building with Solaris 10 and 11.4 :-)
>
> Fwiw i use variants of
>
> # For heaven's sake auto-redirect on SunOS/Solaris
> if [ -z "${__DKIM_KEY_CREATE_UP}" ] && [ -d /usr/xpg4 ]; then
> if [ "x${SHELL}" = x ] || [ "${SHELL}" = /bin/sh ]; then
> echo >&2 'SunOS/Solaris, redirecting through
> $SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh'
> __DKIM_KEY_CREATE_UP=y PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:${PATH}
> SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh
> export __DKIM_KEY_CREATE_UP PATH SHELL
> exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh "${0}" "${@}"
> fi
> fi
I use this (at the moment, only recall that CONFIG_SHELL is needed for
the configure script):
case .$SHELL in
.*/sh)
;;
*)
SHELL=/bin/sh
test -f /usr/xpg4/bin/sh && SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh
;;
esac
export SHELL
CONFIG_SHELL=$SHELL
export CONFIG_SHELL
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Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
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