"Mark D. Baushke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ../gnulib/gnulib-tool --update > > command from the hello-2.1.91 directory on a Solaris 9 box yeilds a > syntax error: > > ../gnulib/gnulib-tool: syntax error at line 634: `}' unexpected
The Solaris /bin/sh doesn't conform to POSIX: $ /bin/sh -c 'if ! false; then echo good; else echo bad; fi' /bin/sh: !: not found bad You can work around the problem with /bin/bash or /bin/ksh or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh. You might also file a bug report with Sun; there's no good reason for /bin/sh to not support '!'. I suspect it's not high priority to port gnulib-tool to hosts that fail to conform to POSIX in major ways. Though I suppose gnulib-tool could check for this particular problem and exit right away if it detects it. Your other points about gnulib-tool reflect some problems I've had with it as well, not that I have solutions.
