I found a much easier solution. I changed the first line of the configure
script from
#!/bin/ksh
to
#!/bin/bash
Everything worked straight away. :)
Thanks,
Ed
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Ed Hillmann <ed.hillm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
