Re: [Doxygen-develop] configure fails on Solaris

[Michael S. <ms...@re...>]

On 29.11.2014 14:44, Dimitri van Heesch wrote:
> Hi Dagobert,
> 
>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 12:16 , Dagobert Michelsen <da...@op...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dimitri,
>>
>> I noticed the current „configure“ of doxygen is broken on my Solaris continuous integration:
>>>
>>> ./configure: syntax error at line 558: `libclang_hdr_dir=$' unexpected
>>>
>>> program finished with exit code 2
> 
> I think a bash specific construct has crept in. Can you check if changing lines 558 and 559 by
> 
>     libclang_hdr_dir=`llvm-config --includedir`
>     libclang_lib_dir=`llvm-config --libdir`
> 
> helps?

actually command substitution with $(...) is not a bashism but perfectly
standard:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_03

it's just that /bin/sh on Solaris (at least in Solaris 10) is so lame
that it doesn't implement it, only the inferior backtick `syntax` that
won't nest.