[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Bootstrap on Solaris

[Francois Cartegnie]

Le 28/02/2012 08:29, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński a écrit :
> Why not make it just work for everyone? It's enough to avoid this
> particular construct. Instead you can either invert the logic and use
> 'else', do something like this:

Because we can't fix everything that is called with a broken shell: The
'everyone' is POSIX.

> That might help, but there is a hardcoded call to 'sh' in bootstrap,
> which resolves to /bin/sh and causes genmf to fail. Perhaps genmf
> should be patched to honor CONFIG_SHELL?

There was a similar patch posted, but never applied and finally end up
as wiki instructions.
I've changed that line to honor an alternative CONFIG_SHELL too.

Meanwhile, you're still not telling on which platform and which vlc
version you're trying to build (and which compiler: official suncc or gcc).

Francois