On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Andreas Färber <636...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Running `LANG=C LC_ALL=C ./configure --prefix=... > --install=/usr/ucb/install` on Solaris 10 amd64 results in the following > errors: > > ./configure: bad substitution > ./configure: !: not found > ./configure: curl-config: not found > ./configure: curl-config: not found > > Error: invalid trace backend > Please choose a supported trace backend.
What is the output of "sh ./tracetool --nop --check-backend"? > > > Unfortunately it doesn't print the line numbers of the errors. It must be > somewhere after the check for `install`. > > The first few can be resolved by running `bash ./configure ...` instead. > > The "check if trace backend exists" hardcodes `sh > "$source_path/tracetool" ...` in configure. Replacing sh with bash makes > it work. > > `gmake` complains "Makefile:331: no file name for -include", which is a > filter for *.d files. > `create_config` gets the 'bad substitution' error as well. Replacing sh with > bash in rules.mak works. > etc. > > To sum it up, > a) there are shell script incompatibilities with Solaris 10's /bin/sh shell, > and I fixed one in 2184d75b4a6a253e8b1e002b3dbcc85c20ba6041 and now Milax's /bin/sh is happy.
