Karl Berry wrote:
Probably the most serious problem was caused by Solaris' annoying /bin/sh, and---oh, yes!---/usr/bin/grep doesn't know about a '-q' switch (which is called by the pdfTeX-inherited build.sh at the top of the build tree),
Maybe this has already been fixed and I didn't see the mail, but FWIW, looking at metapost's build.sh (which I'm guessing is similar :), I see: if make -v 2>&1| grep -q "GNU Make"
Taco, grep -q just isn't portable. Instead, just use redirection: if make -v 2>&1| grep "GNU Make" >/dev/null
(Arthur or anyone, if there are such portability problems anywhere in the TeX Live build, please tell me.)
I will fix that (it started out as a copy of pdftex's build.sh). In texlive, I only import the metapost makefile fragment, so there should not be a problem. Best wishes, Taco