Re: lynx2.9.1 build issues

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:01:37 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 09:26:12PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> 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

I use this (at the moment, only recall that CONFIG_SHELL is needed for
the configure script):

case .$SHELL in
.*/sh)
	;;
*)
	SHELL=/bin/sh
	test -f /usr/xpg4/bin/sh && SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh 
	;;
esac

export SHELL
CONFIG_SHELL=$SHELL
export CONFIG_SHELL

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net
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