Paolo, > And one more question: where is /bin/sh placed in your path? Is > configure using it or something else (which you can see from the > generated config.status or Makefile, looking at the shebang or > SHELL=/path/to/sh lines respectively)?
I've run my tests on sparc-sun-solaris2.11. SHELL is /bin/ksh here, which is /bin/sparcv7/ksh93, like /bin/sh. Things would be considerably different on Solaris 10 and before, where /bin/sh is the old Bourne Shell and even /bin/ksh is ksh88. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University