# HG changeset patch
# User youngs
# Date 1063988673 0
# Node ID 20d5b69d37a1720791ae82b9da2a58a8211a67b2
# Parent  7032283c28db8d5190f5f41d4a5ffba9b90645db
[xemacs-hg @ 2003-09-19 16:24:33 by youngs]
2003-09-20  Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu>

	* PROBLEMS: Propose bash as an alternative to buggy Solaris
	/bin/sh.

diff -r 7032283c28db -r 20d5b69d37a1 ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog	Fri Sep 19 15:56:54 2003 +0000
+++ b/ChangeLog	Fri Sep 19 16:24:33 2003 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-09-20  Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu>
+
+	* PROBLEMS: Propose bash as an alternative to buggy Solaris
+	/bin/sh.
+
 2003-09-20  Steve Youngs  <youngs@xemacs.org>
 
 	* configure: Re-generate after Martin's configure.in patch.
diff -r 7032283c28db -r 20d5b69d37a1 PROBLEMS
--- a/PROBLEMS	Fri Sep 19 15:56:54 2003 +0000
+++ b/PROBLEMS	Fri Sep 19 16:24:33 2003 +0000
@@ -428,7 +428,14 @@
 
 This only occurs if you have LANG != C.  This is a known bug with
 /bin/sh fixed by installing Patch-ID# 101613-01.  Or, you can use
-bash, as a workaround.
+bash by setting the environment variable CONFIG_SHELL to /bin/bash
+
+*** Solaris 2.x configure fails: ./config.status: test: argument expected
+
+This is a known bug with /bin/sh and /bin/test, i.e. they do not
+support the XPG4 standard.  You can use bash as a workaround or an
+XPG4-compliant Bourne shell such as the Sun-supplied /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
+by setting the environment variable CONFIG_SHELL to /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
 
 *** On SunOS, you get linker errors
     ld: Undefined symbol