[ft-devel] Re: configure bug in freetype 2.4,3 on solaris

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Configure isnt working correctly in freetype 2.4.3 on solaris.  It
> immediately errors out with a makefile error about target setup
> unknown.
> 
> I tracked the problem down to a bug in the configure script
> processing the output of ls which on solaris has a leading space the
> script wasn't expecting.
> 
> The following patch resolves the issue and should be safe on other
> platforms as well.

Thanks, however, your patch is incorrect; it removes the last digit of
the inode number too.  Maybe a transmission error?

Note that this your problem has been already reported, and fixed
(hopefully) in git; please test.


    Werner


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diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 06fdc8e..b397556 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ fi
 
 # build a dummy Makefile if we are not building in the source tree;
 # we use inodes to avoid issues with symbolic links
-inode_src=`ls -id $abs_ft2_dir | sed 's/ .*//'`
-inode_dst=`ls -id $abs_curr_dir | sed 's/ .*//'`
+inode_src=`ls -id $abs_ft2_dir | awk '{print $1}'`
+inode_dst=`ls -id $abs_curr_dir | awk '{print $1}'`
 
 if test $inode_src -ne $inode_dst; then
   if test ! -d reference; then