MANY things on sunfreeware is not being properly compiled, and/or
dependencies checked correclty.

The latest I found was grep for Solaris 8 x86.  It's compiled to load
libiconv shared libs.  But there's no dependecy check nor any mention
that you need them...

My .02...

"Wallace, Mark, CTR, ISD" wrote:
> 
> FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
> 
> The problem was with bison.
> The sunfreeware version of bison demands to use /usr/ccs/bin/m4, even if
> /usr/local/bin/m4 is first in the path.  I mv'd /usr/ccs/bin/m4 to
> /usr/ccs/bin/m5, assuming that bison would fail to find /usr/ccs/bin/m4, and
> use /usr/local/bin/m4.
> 
> Unfortunately, bison failed gracelessly.
> 
> To test this, I moved /usr/local/bin/m4 to /usr/ccs/bin/m4 ; the program
> compiled without a hitch.
> 
> Time to recompile bison and to decrease the amount of trust I have in
> sunfreeware.com
> 
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