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Re: Your recent change to gcc/configure.in
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Your recent change to gcc/configure.in
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:45:01 +0000
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-To: rearnsha at arm dot com
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>
> > Breaks builds on Solaris machines. 'test' on these machines does not
> > support the -e flag.
>
> Why doesn't Solaris support test -e (which is in POSIX.2)?
>
Because that's solaris for you:-)
Try asking Sun why.
Anyway, configure has to work on non-posix systems as well as posix ones.
Hence no shell functions and other odd restrictions.
R.