[jira] Resolved: (COUCHDB-975) non-portable sh in configure.ac (breaks on Solaris)

["Noah Slater (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-975?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Noah Slater resolved COUCHDB-975.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Fixed in r1042120.

> non-portable sh in configure.ac (breaks on Solaris)
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-975
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-975
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Build System
>    Affects Versions: 0.8, 0.8.1, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.10, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.11, 0.11.1, 0.11.2, 1.0, 1.0.1
>         Environment: OpenSolaris (will affect other Solaris versions, too)
> SunOS osol-x86 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>            Reporter: Timothy Smith
>            Priority: Minor
>   Original Estimate: 0.08h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0.08h
>
> Get this when running configure:
> ...
> checking for erl... /export/home/tim/c/build-couchdb/build/bin/erl
> ./configure[12123]: : cannot execute [Is a directory]
> /opt/csw/bin/gsed: -e expression #1, char 9: unterminated `s' command
> ./configure[12123]: /g: not found [No such file or directory]
> ./configure[12125]: test: argument expected
> ./configure[12129]: test: argument expected
> ./configure[12133]: test: argument expected
> checking for erlc... /export/home/tim/c/build-couchdb/build/bin/erlc
> ...
> A patch to fix it is:
> commit 6b018d087ba8ddaf3789e106ade9b74488de5136
> Author: Timothy Smith <ti...@couchone.com>
> Date:   Thu Dec 2 23:13:10 2010 -0700
>     Fix syntax error with /bin/sh on Solaris
>     
>     The RHS of an assignment is implicitly quoted in Bourne shell. Not
>     all shells (in particular, not /bin/sh in Solaris) can handle nested
>     double-quotes like foo="`bar "baz"`", and it's always safe to not
>     use the outer set.
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index c609a08..73ea9fe 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ fi
>  
>  erlang_version_error="The installed Erlang version is less than 5.6.5 (R12B05).
>  
> -version="`${ERL} -version 2>&1 | ${SED} "s/[[^0-9]]/ /g"`"
> +version=`${ERL} -version 2>&1 | ${SED} "s/[[^0-9]]/ /g"`
>  
>  if test `echo $version | ${AWK} "{print \\$1}"` -lt 5; then
>      AC_MSG_ERROR([$erlang_version_error])

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