From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Feb 27 15:53:14 2004
Subject: compiling octave-forge on Solaris
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:52:41 -0700

I finally got around compiling octave-forge-2004.02.12 (against octave-2.1.55) on Sparc Solaris 8.
There were some problems:

configure still puts -R/usr/openwin/lib into Makeconf
http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2003/679

main/sparse/buildtests.sh has some bashisms in it (in particular 'function'). Since /bin/sh is not bash
on Solaris, it fails. Replacing #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/bash solved that problem.

After compile finished 'make install' failed with "cannot shift" error message (another bashism),
/bin/sh -> /bin/bash solved that as well.

It looks quite reasonable to me to require bash in order to build octave-forge, so may be that is
the simplest fix (bash is actually included on Sun's "Companion CD" or whatever it is called).

Sincerely,

Dmitri.




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