From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 16:07:25 EDT
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:56:02PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
>
> I've found and "fixed" a minor installation glitch for libxml 2.2.5 under
> SunOS 5.6. It appears that there are two versions of the test utility
> under SunOS, and one of them is broken. The /usr/bin/test version of
> the utility recognizes the -e option, but the /bin/test version does
> not. It will be pot-luck which one any given user has in their path
> first - and if the broken version is found, the configure script will
> fail.
>
> What I did to make this work was to change the configure script to use
> -r rather than -e (the change is just the difference between "exists"
> and "exists and is readable"). Hopefully, this will be portable to
> other systems with a broken test utility as well...as long as Daniel
> thinks it's safe.
>
> Below my signature is a patch for configure.in. I think I've provided
> the right kind of context diff, but let me know if there are problems
> with it (it worked for me when I tested it).
We actually went with Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
through a long series of attemps to find a portable solution to this
problem ... And ended up with the enclosed patch (admitedly a bit more
complex).
Daniel
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