[Qemu-devel] [Bug 636315] [NEW] configure and build errors on Solaris 10 due to /bin/sh usage

[Andreas Färber]

Public bug reported:

Running `LANG=C LC_ALL=C ./configure --prefix=...
--install=/usr/ucb/install` on Solaris 10 amd64 results in the following
errors:

./configure: bad substitution
./configure: !: not found
./configure: curl-config: not found
./configure: curl-config: not found

Error: invalid trace backend
Please choose a supported trace backend.


Unfortunately it doesn't print the line numbers of the errors. It must be 
somewhere after the check for `install`.

The first few can be resolved by running `bash ./configure ...` instead.

The "check if trace backend exists" hardcodes `sh
"$source_path/tracetool" ...` in configure. Replacing sh with bash makes
it work.

`gmake` complains "Makefile:331: no file name for -include", which is a filter 
for *.d files.
`create_config` gets the 'bad substitution' error as well. Replacing sh with 
bash in rules.mak works.
etc.

To sum it up,
a) there are shell script incompatibilities with Solaris 10's /bin/sh shell, and
b) hardcoding 'sh' in configure or Makefiles seems like a bad idea.

QEMU Git 73d7434279e3905164afd02360eebe4b43c7fa (ESP: fix ESP DMA
access...)

$ uname -a
SunOS sonnengoettin 5.10 Generic_142901-03 i86pc i386 i86pc

# No banner output for /bin/sh

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-pc-solaris2.10)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: solaris

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configure and build errors on Solaris 10 due to /bin/sh usage
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636315
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Bug description:
Running `LANG=C LC_ALL=C ./configure --prefix=... --install=/usr/ucb/install` 
on Solaris 10 amd64 results in the following errors:

./configure: bad substitution
./configure: !: not found
./configure: curl-config: not found
./configure: curl-config: not found

Error: invalid trace backend
Please choose a supported trace backend.


Unfortunately it doesn't print the line numbers of the errors. It must be 
somewhere after the check for `install`.

The first few can be resolved by running `bash ./configure ...` instead. 

The "check if trace backend exists" hardcodes `sh "$source_path/tracetool" ...` 
in configure. Replacing sh with bash makes it work.

`gmake` complains "Makefile:331: no file name for -include", which is a filter 
for *.d files.
`create_config` gets the 'bad substitution' error as well. Replacing sh with 
bash in rules.mak works.
etc.

To sum it up,
a) there are shell script incompatibilities with Solaris 10's /bin/sh shell, and
b) hardcoding 'sh' in configure or Makefiles seems like a bad idea.

QEMU Git 73d7434279e3905164afd02360eebe4b43c7fa (ESP: fix ESP DMA access...)

$ uname -a
SunOS sonnengoettin 5.10 Generic_142901-03 i86pc i386 i86pc

# No banner output for /bin/sh

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-pc-solaris2.10)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.