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Does Libtool 2.4 support Solaris 2.8?

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From: Andreas Kupries <andreask <at> activestate.com>
To: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres <at> cisco.com>
Cc: gary <at> vaughan.pe, 9249 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Brice.Goglin <at> inria.fr, samuel.thibault <at> inria.fr
Subject: bug#9249: Does Libtool 2.4 support Solaris 2.8?
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:24:17 -0700

On 8/8/2011 1:08 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Andreas Kupries wrote:
>
>> First, from a plain run, no modifications ... My log file shows
>>
>> 	CONF checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
>> 	CONF checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
>>
>> Given that the code snippet seems to check the shell executing the configure script this is to be expected, as I am explicitly using bash to run all my configure scripts.
>
> What happens if you run configure in sh (not bash)?

executing sh ../../src/configure ...
	sh = /usr/bin/sh
CONF
[...]
CONF checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
CONF checking whether the shell understands "+="... no

And the build works.

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