Building issues under Solaris 9

[Christopher C. <Chr...@jp...>]

Hello,

    I am not certain that I am emailing the proper address but this is 
the address I saw on the development page.

    I am using Solaris 9 and attempting to build the latest CVS version 
4.1 for a scientist who needs to use a feature only under 4.1 apparently.

    I tried the sample unix makefile with no success so then I grabbed 
the required versions of autoconf, m4, etc. and tried to follow the 
directions on the page.

    The process hangs/waits with ./prepare:

opik{root}76# ./prepare
rm -f Makefile.am Makefile.amt
sed -n '1,/^##m4-files-begin/p' Makefile.am.in > Makefile.amt
echo EXTRA_DIST = README Makefile.am.in buildvms.com config.* \
  djconfig.sh make_vms.com term_pc.h makefile.* | fmt | \
  (tr '\012' @; echo) |sed 's/@$/%/;s/@/ \\@/g' |tr @% '\012 ' >> 
Makefile.amt
sed -n '/^##m4-files-end/,$p'  >> Makefile.amt


    What tips do you have for building (other than on the dev. page).

    Thanks.