I spoke too soon.
Changing printf to echo $output_flags did work. I just needed to do it for
all of the occurences in the script.
So, I'm making forward progress. Thanks!
Ed
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Philip Martin
<philip.mar...@wandisco.com>wrote:
> Ed Hillmann <ed.hillm...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... build/install-sh -c
> > configure: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library configuration
> > checking for APR... yes
> > checking APR version... 1.4.5
> > /u01/ct/ctapp/subversion-1.7.0/configure: bad substitution
> >
> >
> > I can't see what is causing the bad substitution error.
>
> > printf "%s" "${output_flags# }"
>
> I'm guessing it's the # substitution in that line. Which shell are you
> using? It's a long time since I used Solaris but there used to be
> /usr/xpg4/bin/sh that was more like the shells commonly found on Linux.
> Perhaps you could use that. Alternatively you may be able to replace
> the above line with:
>
> echo $output_flags
>
> it occurs in several places in configure.
>
> --
> Philip
>
