A possible bash bug?

[George R Goffe]

Howdy,

I'm having a heck of a time trying to build my favorite vi look
alike (nvi) and I think I've found a bug. I'm not sure where it is
though, maybe behind my keyboard?

I'm running the configure file that's shipped with nvi-1.81.5 which
I have freshly downloaded. I'm on a solaris 2.8 system with a ton of
gnu software installed... most built by me but some packages from
sunfreeware.com...

Nvi uses the db3 or db4 software and that's the area in which
configure's apparently failing. I thought it might be a /bin/sh
problem which is suns sh so I switched to the latest bash (2.05b
with patches) hoping that this solves the problem. The problem
appears with this version of bash as well. I have clip'd part of the
build log created when I run configure with --no-reexec and -xv
flags set in configure itself. I displayed the LIBS variable just
before and just after the case statement below and both show up as
being empty. Am I mis-understanding the case statement or the
expression for the solaris* case or is this a bug?

Any/all help/hints/tips/suggestions/clues would be GREATLY
appreciated.

Regards and thanks for your time (hopefully NOT a wild goose chase),

George...




   7674 
   7675 
   7676 no_op_OPTFLAG=${no_op_OPTFLAG-"$OPTFLAG"}
   7677 + no_op_OPTFLAG=
   7678 
   7679 echo
'$LIBS='$LIBS'...................................................................................................'
   7680 + echo
'$LIBS=...................................................................................................'
   7681
$LIBS=...................................................................................................
   7682 
   7683 echo
'$host_os='$host_os'......................................................................................'
   7684 + echo
'$host_os=solaris2.8......................................................................................'
   7685
$host_os=solaris2.8......................................................................................
   7686 
   7687 case "$host_os" in
   7688 bsdi2.1)   LIBS=${LIBS-"-lipc"};;
   7689 dgux*)     LIBS=${LIBS-"-ldgc"};;
   7690 irix6*)    LIBS=${LIBS-"-lbsd"};;
   7691 irix*)     LIBS=${LIBS-"-lc_s -lbsd"};;
   7692 isc*)      LIBS=${LIBS-"-lcposix -linet"};;
   7693 netbsd1*)  LIBS=${LIBS-"-lcrypt"};;
   7694 ptx*)      LIBS=${LIBS-"-lseq -linet -lsocket"};;
   7695 sco3.2*)   LIBS=${LIBS-"-lsocket"};;
   7696 sinix*)    LIBS=${LIBS-"-lelf -lc"};;
   7697 solaris*)  LIBS=${LIBS-"-lsocket -lnsl -ldl"};;
   7698 wgs*)      LIBS=${LIBS-"-lnsl"};;
   7699 esac
   7700 + LIBS=
   7701 
   7702 echo
'$LIBS='$LIBS'...................................................................................................'
   7703 + echo
'$LIBS=...................................................................................................'
   7704
$LIBS=...................................................................................................
   7705 


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