On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:31:22PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Nicolas Joly wrote on Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:27:25PM CEST: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:35:00PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Nicolas Joly wrote on Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:10:47PM CEST: > > > > > > > > In the mean time, i tested the solution where `print -r' and `ksh' > > > > tests are swapped (attached patch). It seems to go a little further > > > > (no more `print' error messages), but seems to fail in another ksh > > > > problem/bug : > > [ which ends in a segmentation fault. ] > > > > Please rerun the libtool command line with --debug and post output, > > > you may pack (gzip, bzip2). > > > > libtool.dbg.bz2 attached. > > OK, let's cut this testing a little short. It seems that Tru64 fails to > provide any decent kind of shell for its users. > > I consider just putting a note about Tru64 into README (branch-1-5) > resp. doc/notes.texi (HEAD). Proposal would be one of the following > (whichever works and passes the test suite): > > | Note that Tru64 V5.1B ksh has some bugs which make it hardly useable for > | libtoolized packages. Please set > | BIN_SH=xpg4; export BIN_SH > | in your environment for configuring and building.
This one does not work ... It will solve the `print' problem, but will lead to the shell crash a little later. with `BIN_SH=xpg4' set, `/usr/bin/posix/sh' is executed instead of the classic `/bin/sh'; and, unfortunately, this is a hard link to `ksh'. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]> ls -ldi /usr/bin/posix/sh /usr/bin/ksh 482 -rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 307248 Oct 16 2002 /usr/bin/ksh 482 -rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 307248 Oct 16 2002 /usr/bin/posix/sh > | Note that Tru64 V5.1B ksh has some bugs which make it hardly useable for > | libtoolized packages. Please set > | lt_ECHO='printf %s\\n'; export lt_ECHO > | in your environment for configuring and building. > > (s/lt_ECHO/ECHO/g for branch-1-5). Will test, and report. > What do you think? Which one? Could one of the Tru64 users be bothered > to send a bug report to HP? Sorry i can't. Our sysadmins tried to have a software support contract from Digital/Compaq for many years, but didn't get any succes ! They give up when HP came up ... -- Nicolas Joly Biological Software and Databanks. Institut Pasteur, Paris. _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
