Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 636315] [NEW] configure and build errors on Solaris 10 due to /bin/sh usage

[Blue Swirl]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Andreas Färber
<address@hidden> 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.