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bootstrap failed on solaris10

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Message #8 received at 8021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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.

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