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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2023-04-26 09:39:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2023-04-26 09:39:35 +0300 |
| commit | b5ace2eed8066259b3aaef0c18652e280cdaefec (patch) | |
| tree | 183441a5a3054265db320e74fdfffd8454cc2f6b | |
| parent | 7b2ad8f199e52398c226413d515eccc589730ffa (diff) | |
| download | emacs-b5ace2eed8066259b3aaef0c18652e280cdaefec.tar.gz | |
Document problems with /bin/sh on Solaris 10
* etc/PROBLEMS (Solaris): Document problems with '/bin/sh'.
Suggested by Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>. (Bug#63067)
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 3c75e81b8b9..c0cb5b0d8bb 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2688,6 +2688,15 @@ Emacs so that it isn't compiled with '-O5'. We list bugs in current versions here. See also the section on legacy systems. +*** On Solaris 10, running 'configure' with "/bin/sh" produces errors. +The "/bin/sh" shell on Solaris is an ancient and non-POSIX shell, so +we recommend not to use it. The Emacs 'configure' script should find +an appropriate shell and re-exec itself with that shell, unless you +force it to use "/bin/sh" by using "CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh" on the +'configure' command line. So either don't use CONFIG_SHELL, or, if +you'd rather pick the shell yourself, choose "/bin/bash" or "/bin/ksh" +or "/usr/xpg4/bin/sh" instead. + *** On Solaris 10 sparc, Emacs crashes during the build while saving state. This was observed for Emacs 28.1 on Solaris 10 32-bit sparc, with Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 (Sun C 5.15). The failure was intermittent, |