changeset 1697:20d5b69d37a1

[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.
author youngs
date Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:24:33 +0000
parents 7032283c28db
children 4b7295e5a412
files ChangeLog PROBLEMS
diffstat 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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+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.
--- 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