Your recent change to gcc/configure.in

[Phil Edwards]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:25:10PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 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)?

/usr/xpg4/bin/sh == [/usr]/bin/ksh == POSIX, and its builtin test does.

/usr/bin/test external binary does.

[/usr]/bin/sh != POSIX and will never == POSIX, and its builtin test does not.


(Yeah, yeah, I know, I don't like it any better than you do...)

Phil

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