I recently downloaded the gnu smalltalk 2.1.7 tarball, and got some
interesting complaints when I ran ./configure:
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Script started on Fri Apr 30 23:23:57 2004
% pwd
~/smalltalk-2.1.7
% uname -a
SunOS straumli 5.8 Generic_108528-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
% ./configure
Missing }.
Missing }.
Found no shell that has working shell functions.
Please tell autoconf@xxxxxxx about your system.
Missing }.
Found no shell that has working shell functions.
Please tell autoconf@xxxxxxx about your system.
Missing }.
Found no shell that has working shell functions.
Please tell autoconf@xxxxxxx about your system.
Missing }.
Found no shell that has working shell functions.
Please tell autoconf@xxxxxxx about your system.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... config/install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
[1mBuild Tools:[m
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... egrep
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for AIX... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... no
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for gawk... (cached) nawk
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for install-info... :
checking for emacs... no
checking for xemacs... no
checking where .elc files should go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
[1mPlatform environment:[m
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
checking for inline... inline
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for working volatile... yes
checking for restrict... __restrict__
checking for goto void *... yes
checking builtin preprocessor symbol set... "__STDC__", "__sparc__", "__sun", "__sun__", "__svr4__", "__unix", "sparc", "sun", "unix",
checking how to dlopen the C library... /lib/libc.so
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/xpg4/bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/ccs/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for /usr/ccs/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/local/bin/nm -B
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... expr: syntax error
./configure: test: argument expected
% exit
script done on Fri Apr 30 23:25:06 2004
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