On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:57:02PM +0200, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>
> >UNAME_REL=`(/bin/uname -X|grep Release|sed -e 's/.*= //')`
>
> Not sure what you want to achieve here... 'uname -X' is valid on
> Solaris, but not on Linux. The OP has indicated already that he is
> running this on Linux (SLES) so the above line is supposed to fail.
Indeed
But it would be very interesting to know why I and it turns out nobody
else needs to supply a machine name as an argument
This is key because if I don't supply one I get an unexpected token `('
error
If I do supply one I get another unexpected token `(' later in the
configure process
If we can track down the source of the unexpected token `(' error....
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