Your recent change to gcc/configure.in

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Mon Nov 13 09:45:00 GMT 2000


> 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.



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