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

[Thomas Huth]

The shell-based tracetool has been replace in commit
650ab98d1d9551f0ca21 with a script that has been implemented in Python,
so I think we can close this bug nowadays.

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  configure and build errors on Solaris 10 due to /bin/sh usage

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Released

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.

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