[x264-devel] Solaris 10 sparc patch to configure

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

hbent at cs.oberlin.edu a écrit :
> On Fri, January 23, 2009 5:41 am, Loren Merritt wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Robinson, Greg wrote:
>>
>>> And finally, the version.sh script does not work on my system as I do
>>> not
>>> have git installed.  And if I did, it would not work.
>> Git has been ported, so the only possible meaning or your sentence I can
>> see is that `sort`, `join`, `awk`, and all the other standard tools used
>> in version.sh also broken on Solaris?
>>
> 
> I can see a few problems on Solaris 10 wrt version.sh:
> 
> -Stock /bin/sh doesn't understand "if [ $LOCALVER \> 1 ]".  I just use
> bash instead.  /usr/xpg4/bin/sh appears to be OK.
> 
> -/bin/grep doesn't understand -q.  /usr/xpg4/bin/grep does.
> 
> -/bin/head doesn't understand -c.  Neither does /usr/ucb/bin/head.
> 
> I don't know why Solaris chooses to ship crippled tools in the default
> install, but they do.

It's not crippled at all! It's just that they guarantee that years-old
scripts are Solaris user's experience is still valid with current
environment.

If people want that, they are free to install and use GNU tools instead....

Guillaume