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Re: 3.1 branch bootstrap fails on sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8


mike stump <mrs@windriver.com> writes:

> It must be a bug then, and it must need fixing.  Users would appreciate
> it being fixed.  To take a line from perl:

> if [ "$0" = /bin/sh -a "$system" = solaris ]; then
>    export CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
>    exec /bin/ksh ${1+"$@"}
> fi

> or whatever it takes.

I realize that this is a much larger project that will take quite a while,
but just as an aside, you get the above for "free" once GCC can use the
current release of autoconf.  autoconf now seeks out a modern shell at
configure time rather than just using whatever /bin/sh happens to be.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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