Hi, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

* The spurious '$' are more of a concern: apparently they're due to discrepancies between Solaris /bin/sh and bash (which seem to interpret constructs like "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_prog_LN_S'+set}'`\" = set" differently, and on Solaris the dollar sign is set verbatim). So what we actually have to do is use bash for the configure scripts (which on Solaris is available as /bin/bash as well as /usr/bin/bash). But of course, the path is set explicitely at the top of the script... So this is more of a problem.

So, as a last request, would it be possible the tell autoconf to write "#!/bin/bash" at the beginning of the configure scripts, instead of /bin/sh? This seems the way to go, since on many systems /bin/sh is bash anyway (including Mac OS X), and apparently it's expected to be it, since it doesn't work otherwise on Solaris.

If it it's not possible, let it be; I'll find a workaround, but this is rather silly.

I agree that it is silly, but I just realized that this version will at least *run* on systems with only sh or pdksh. Changing the first line of the configure scripts to something like #!/usr/bin/env bash would make it fail completely on such systems. So, I am sorry, but I have changed my mind about making that change to the configure scripts (for now). Best wishes, Taco