Re: config.status and /bin/sh on Solaris

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >
> > > I have been using Solaris 10 daily for Autoconf related development since 
> > > 2005 and have never seen configure select /bin/sh.  One reason is that the 
> > > system normally has /usr/bin/bash installed.
> > >
> > > Are you missing /usr/bin/bash on your system?
> >
> > Hi, I have it, the installation is a full-sized one so it comes with all 
> > utilities. Can you try running the configure script with this environment:
> >
> > PATH=/opt/csw/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/bin   /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ./configure
> >
> > Then what's the shebang line on top of config.status?
>
> I get the same problem you do.  The config.status script starts with 
> "/bin/sh" and it fails to execute properly.
>
> If I don't specifically execute configure using /usr/xpg4/bin/sh then the 
> config.status script starts with "/bin/bash" and everything is fine.

Thanks for verifying! I'm now getting a similar (same cause it seems) 
error on a different software compilation, this time on Solaris 11. The 
common denominator is the tweaked PATH, putting /usr/xpg4/bin before 
/usr/bin causes havoc. I'll investigate more and report back.

 It seems tweaking the PATH in my build environment was not the best idea. 
:-)


Dimitris