Re: 2.96.3 beta -- `{' unmatched from configure on Irix

George N White, writes:

> Building 2.96.3 beta on SGI Irix 6.5.22m (this worked for 2.96.1 on
> Irix 6.5.21m)

I believe these may be problems with /bin/sh on IRIX.  Try either
disabling the cache file or using bash (I suppose specified in the
configure scripts themselves :-( ) as a workaround.

> CC=c99 CXX=CC ./configure --prefix=/opt/tex/tetex-3
> [...]
> configuring in web2c
> running /bin/sh ./configure  --prefix=/opt/tex/tetex-3 --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> loading cache .././config.cache
> ./configure[588]: syntax error at line 73 : `{' unmatched
> configure: error: ./configure failed for web2c
> configure: error: ./configure failed for texk

> line 73 of config.cache reads (after wrapping for mail):

> lt_cv_global_symbol_to_c_name_address=${lt_cv_global_symbol_to_c_name\
> _address='sed -n -e '\''s/^\'^\^\'^: ([^\'^'\''^\'^ ]*) $/  {"1", \
> (lt_ptr) 0,/p\ -e '\''s/^\'^\^\'^[BCDEGRST] ([^\'^'\''^\'^ ]*) \
> ([^\'^'\''^\'^ ]*)$/  {\2, (lt_ptr) &2},/p\}'}

> bash also complains but keeps going:

> $ /usr/freeware/bin/bash ./configure  --prefix=/opt/tex/tetex-3 --cache-file=>
> loading cache .././config.cache
> ./configure: .././config.cache: line 74: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./configure: .././config.cache: line 74: `lt_cv_global_symbol_to_cdecl=${lt_cv_global_symbol_to_cdecl='sed -n -e '\''s/^\'^\^\'^. .* (.*)$/extern char 1;/p\'}'

> --
> George N. White III  <[email protected]>
>    Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada




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Olaf Weber

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