[Bug bootstrap/31224] New: some installation scripts and Makefiles do not run on stock Solaris

[Bug bootstrap/31224] New: some installation scripts and Makefiles do not run on stock Solaris

[Luc dot Maisonobe at free dot fr]

Some scripts and Makefiles used during the bootstrap process use options
provided by GNU tools (bash, test, diff) which are not supported by stock
Solaris 2.8 tools.

The errors I have encountered so far (I'm still fighting with installation)
are:

 missing -a flag between two tests

 use of test -e, which should be replaced by test -f
  (or test -d for directories)

 use of set -C in shell (which has no equivalent)

 use of diff -U 0, which should be replaced by diff -C 0 with the additional
  trick to add a space between the initial '-' or '+' character and the line

The concerned files are libjava/classpath/lib/gen-classlist.sh.in,
libjava/classpath/lib/Makefile.am and
libjava/classpath/scripts/check_jni_methods.sh.

I will post a patch for this in a few minutes.


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           Summary: some installation scripts and Makefiles do not run on
                    stock Solaris
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.1.2
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: bootstrap
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: Luc dot Maisonobe at free dot fr
 GCC build triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
  GCC host triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
GCC target triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8


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[Bug bootstrap/31224] some installation scripts and Makefiles do not run on stock Solaris

[Luc dot Maisonobe at free dot fr]

------- Comment #1 from Luc dot Maisonobe at free dot fr  2007-03-16 13:56 -------
Created an attachment (id=13213)
 --> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=13213&action=view)
patch changing commands flags to ones hopefully more widely supported

This patch is neither fully tested nor complete. It is merely provided as a
reference and to clarify the problem. I am not sure the chosen flags are the
good ones (for example I didn't understand what the inial test with the missing
-a and the compound -ef flags intended to do).


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[Bug bootstrap/31224] some installation scripts and Makefiles do not run on stock Solaris

[Luc dot Maisonobe at free dot fr]

------- Comment #2 from Luc dot Maisonobe at free dot fr  2007-03-16 13:59 -------
In the provided patch, I replaced a sequence of mkdir commands with a single
mkdir -p. I know the -p flag is not supported everywhere (or at least was not
supported years ago), but since this option is used elsewhere in the
Makefile.am, I considered it was not a problem.


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[Bug bootstrap/31224] some installation scripts and Makefiles do not run on stock Solaris

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #3 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-03-16 15:20 -------
/bin/sh is not a POSIX shell in Solaris and GCC depends a POSIX shell.

test -ef is actually POSIX, read the man page on solaris, it will say it is not
avaible with /bin/sh.


Anyways you did not read:
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-solaris2

Which says:

The Solaris 2 /bin/sh will often fail to configure libstdc++-v3, boehm-gc or
libjava. We therefore recommend using the following initial sequence of
commands

        % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
        % export CONFIG_SHELL


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pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31224

[Bug bootstrap/31224] some installation scripts and Makefiles do not run on stock Solaris

[Luc dot Maisonobe at free dot fr]

------- Comment #4 from Luc dot Maisonobe at free dot fr  2007-03-19 08:08 -------
Sorry, I missed this.

One question remains, though: does this also stand for the -U flag in the diff
command from script libjava/classpath/scripts/check_jni_methods.sh ? I did not
find anything about it (but once again may have missed something).


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