Re: Fail to build on Solaris 8, /bin/sh: test: argument expected

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Solaris 8, eh???  Hmmm... It's been a while.  I know that SUN offers a
free suite of Open Source GNU tools:

        http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/


I am guessing that there are updates for some of these packages. Search
the web for sites that host SUN freeware.

-Joseph

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On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 00:19 -0700, zhang changlin wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm a user of Solaris 5.8, I'm not a root.
> I tried to install GNOME 2.14 by using GARNOME.
> 
> >cd desktop
> >make paranoid-install
> ...
> [===== NOW BUILDING:    bug-buddy-2.14.0        =====]
>         [fetch] complete for bug-buddy.
>         [checksum] complete for bug-buddy.
>         [extract] complete for bug-buddy.
>         [patch] complete for bug-buddy.
> /bin/sh: test: argument expected
> make[1]: *** [fixuplibtool] Error 1
> ...
> 
> I googled the problem, it looks like the /bin/sh of
> Solaris is not bash, but the scripts of GARNOME
> assumes it is. I found no answer to this problem in
> Google.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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