Hi, On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:00:52PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Edd Barrett wrote: >> ---8<--- >> blade% uname -a >> SunOS blade 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 >> blade% ./configure >> ./configure: LC_ALL=C: is not an identifier >> ---8<--- > > This has been specifically mentioned on the development list as being a > result of the shell not being POSIX-compatible. Perhaps, but the aim of autotools is to make sure your software can build on any platform right? > >> b) When you run configure with bash it becomes very apparent that the >> script assumes the system is using the GNU tool-chain. Many systems >> do not use the GNU tools. Whilst solaris does ship with gtar, ggrep >> (in /usr/sfw), they are not the default versions. There is no GNU >> tail command installed by default. > > As far as I am aware, the configure script does not assume GNU tools; it > does, however, assume POSIX-compatible tools. Same again. > There are some > environments - and I think Solaris may be one of them - where the > default toolchain is not POSIX-compatible. The recommended approach in > these cases is to add the path(s) to the POSIX-compatible tools to the > head of your PATH before running configure. > > For what it's worth, I see a number of people in the -dev-eng archives > who appear to have built MPlayer successfully on OpenSolaris... I did some googling and it looks like people are installing the GNU bits and bobs for the mplayer build, so yes, looks like it is possible, but I wonder how hard it really is to write portable lowest common denominator shell script, so you don't need to install additional software. Maybe I will look at this some time. I see your point with POSIX, but im pretty certain sun won't be changing thier grep implementation any time soon. Thanks for getting back to me. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
