FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il giorno ven, 20/10/2006 alle 22.56 -0400, James K. Lowden ha scritto:
> Martin Spott wrote:
> > fix the first line in 'autogen.sh'; in fact, this is _not_ a
> >    Bourne-shell script!, this script requires Bash for proper
> >    execution ....  at least this is my experience
> 
> Hi Martin!  
> 
> What exactly happens when you try to execute autogen.sh with /bin/sh?  
> 
> I do it all the time on NetBSD.  It defintely doesn't *require* bash.  
> 
> I wonder whether there's something nonstandard in the script (nothing
> obvious to me) or if perhaps your /bin/sh falls short in some way?  
> 
> I'd rather change the script so it works with anything claiming to be a
> Bourne shell.  
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> --jkl

I think that one of the problems are $(cmd) which seems to be
unsupported by Solaris. I changed script to use `cmd`

freddy77