Re: lynx2.9.1 build issues

Thomas Dickey wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 08:43:20AM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
 |> At Utah, I ran build attempts of lynx2.9.1 in more than 70 systems in
 |> our test farm. Of those, 59 built and validated successfully, and
 |> 2.9.1 is now the default version of lynx on all of our physical
 |> servers.
 |> 
 |> The remaining failures are traced to just two issues:
 |> 
 |> (1) On Solaris systems, configure fails like this:
 |> 
 |>  checking for DESTDIR... ./configure: syntax error at line 1343: `('
 |>  unexpected
 |> 
 |> The fix was simple: use a newer shell than /bin/sh:
 |> 
 |>  ksh ./configure ....
 |
 |That's been my recommendation for several years (actually, for tin,
 |I provided Urs with a script to alter the configure script, but don't
 |recall anyone else commenting on it) - I posted a copy here:
 |
 | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2019-02/msg00033.html
 |
 |Either way, I've been building with Solaris 10 and 11.4 :-)

Fwiw i use variants of

  # For heaven's sake auto-redirect on SunOS/Solaris
  if [ -z "${__DKIM_KEY_CREATE_UP}" ] && [ -d /usr/xpg4 ]; then
          if [ "x${SHELL}" = x ] || [ "${SHELL}" = /bin/sh ]; then
                  echo >&2 'SunOS/Solaris, redirecting through $SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh'
                  __DKIM_KEY_CREATE_UP=y PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:${PATH} SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh
                  export __DKIM_KEY_CREATE_UP PATH SHELL
                  exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh "${0}" "${@}"
          fi
  fi


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