[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54235] problems building Octave on Solaris

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #95, bug #54235 (project octave):

That is way cool.  You now can at least play around in Octave.  You could also
run 'make check' to get an idea how functional this version is.  This command
will run the test suite and at the end will print a summary of
passed/failed/skipped tests.

I checked on the use of 'id' in configure.  I was hoping that Automake would
rely on a variable and invoke $(ID) so that the program could be overridden by
a variable from Autoconf.  But, this is not the case.  So, Mike is correct
that the configure script needs to have the two instances where "id" is used
replaced with "gid".


      am_uid=`id -u || echo unknown`
      am_gid=`id -g || echo unknown`


Alternatively, you could become root and move 'id' aside to a new name like
'sid' for Solaris ID and then soft link 'gid' to 'id'.


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