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

[Carson Gaspar <carson+garnome taltos org>]

> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 00:19 -0700, zhang changlin wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > 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.

--On Friday, June 09, 2006 10:30 AM -0400 "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." 
<joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:

> 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.

No. The problem is that Garnome assumes that /bin/sh is a POSIX shell (or 
perhaps bash - I haven't tested with ksh/zsh/etc.). On Solaris, it is not. 
You can install as many copies of bash as you like, if you don't install 
them as /bin/sh, Garnome will break. The solution is to edit the broken 
Garnome files and replace /bin/sh with $SHELL or some such, and set $SHELL 
to be a POSIX shell.

You'll also need to fix a lot of other things, unless much has changed 
since the last time I built Garnome on Solaris.

--
Carson