Re: [OctDev] octave-forge on solaris 8

[Aaron J. <ja...@ms...>]

On Jul 1, 2005, at 10:55 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> FWIW:
>
> I would recommend to install gnu version even of those utils
> which are provided with Solaris 8. perl, sed, and, as you found, grep
> are some of the examples.
> Also, Solaris' /bin/sh is not POSIX compliant, so you may want to
> replace
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> with
> SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
> in a couple makefile/makeconf scripts
>
> You can get most of the stuff at www.sunfreeware.com

The regular Solaris commands listed above are not POSIX compliant, 
however there are POSIX compliant versions in /usr/xpg4/bin.  I just 
tested it and it is only necessary to put /usr/xpg4/bin first in the 
PATH variable to run the scripts as is.  As a side effect I see that 
main/image/bestblk.m, main/image/bweuler.m and main/image/conndef.m are 
missing new lines at their end.  I guess the build process for solaris 
should be

setenv PATH /usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
./configure
gmake -k
gmake check
gmake install

Thanks.

Aaron