GNU bug report logs - #9249
Does Libtool 2.4 support Solaris 2.8?

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Package: libtool;

Reported by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres <at> cisco.com>

Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 01:54:04 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Andreas Kupries <andreask <at> activestate.com>
To: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres <at> cisco.com>
Cc: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gary <at> vaughan.pe>, 9249 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin <at> inria.fr>, bug-libtool <at> gnu.org,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> inria.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#9249: Does Libtool 2.4 support Solaris 2.8?
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:39:45 -0700

On 8/8/2011 1:40 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Andreas Kupries wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> Ok, good.
>
> It wasn't clear to me that you were explicitly running configure in bash before, and then the makefiles were defaulting to sh.

I see. Yeah, that is what I'm doing.
I will find a way from here now.

> All is now explained.
> Thanks, libtool people!

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