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bootstrap failed on solaris10

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From: Jeff liu <jeff.liu <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: bootstrap failed on solaris10
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:03:49 +0800

Hello,

I was ran into a wired issue when running `bootstrap` on solaris10 with bash-3.00, 
bash-3.00# ./bootstrap
./bootstrap: syntax error at line 328: `p1=$' unexpected

bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS pibroch 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc

Coreutils is cloned from upstream,  I am intend to try it on Solaris for sparse file copy through lseek. 



Best Regards,
-Jeff

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Jeff liu <jeff.liu <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 8021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8021: bootstrap failed on solaris10
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:18:24 +0100

Jeff liu wrote:
> I was ran into a wired issue when running `bootstrap` on solaris10
> with bash-3.00,
> bash-3.00# ./bootstrap
> ./bootstrap: syntax error at line 328: `p1=$' unexpected

Try "bash ./bootstrap".
Otherwise, bootstrap uses /bin/sh, which (on that system)
doesn't know about the $(...) syntax.

> bash-3.00# uname -a
> SunOS pibroch 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc
>
> Coreutils is cloned from upstream, I am intend to try it on Solaris
> for sparse file copy through lseek.

Message #11 received at 8021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "jeff.liu" <jeff.liu <at> oracle.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 8021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8021: bootstrap failed on solaris10
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:39:46 +0800

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jeff liu wrote:
>> I was ran into a wired issue when running `bootstrap` on solaris10
>> with bash-3.00,
>> bash-3.00# ./bootstrap
>> ./bootstrap: syntax error at line 328: `p1=$' unexpected
> 
> Try "bash ./bootstrap".
> Otherwise, bootstrap uses /bin/sh, which (on that system)
> doesn't know about the $(...) syntax.
Thanks Jim! Now it works for me.

-Jeff
> 
>> bash-3.00# uname -a
>> SunOS pibroch 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc
>>
>> Coreutils is cloned from upstream, I am intend to try it on Solaris
>> for sparse file copy through lseek.

Message #16 received at 8021-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Jeff liu <jeff.liu <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 8021-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8021: bootstrap failed on solaris10
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:58:14 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jeff liu wrote:
>> I was ran into a wired issue when running `bootstrap` on solaris10
>> with bash-3.00,
>> bash-3.00# ./bootstrap
>> ./bootstrap: syntax error at line 328: `p1=$' unexpected
>
> Try "bash ./bootstrap".
> Otherwise, bootstrap uses /bin/sh, which (on that system)
> doesn't know about the $(...) syntax.
>
>> bash-3.00# uname -a
>> SunOS pibroch 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc
>>
>> Coreutils is cloned from upstream, I am intend to try it on Solaris
>> for sparse file copy through lseek.

Jeff confirmed that using bash worked around the problem,
so I'm closing this.

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