Re: [Plplot-devel] done with config changes + STATUS QUESTION

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

Geoffrey Furnish writes:
 > 2) I just found that I can't run configure on a slowaris box.  That
 > seems significant to me, and I'll be looking into it now.

The problem is near the top:

with_defaults=yes
for option; do
    case "$option" in
    -with-defaults | --with-defaults | -with-defaults=yes |
--with-defaults=yes )
		        with_defaults=yes
			;;
			-without-defaults | --without-defaults |
-with-defaults=no | --with-defaults=no )
		      with_defaults=no
		      ;;
    esac
done

Sun sh flips out saying the ; after "option" in the for clause, is
unexpected.  Yet Sun man sh says:

     for  name [ in word ... ] do list done
               Each time a for  command is executed, name is  set
               to  the  next word taken from the in word list. If
               in word ... is omitted, then the for  command exe-
               cutes the do list once for each positional parame-
               ter that is set (see Parameter  Substitution  sec-
               tion below). Execution ends when there are no more
               words in the list.

But, evidently, it doesn't actually work as documented.  I'm cahnging
this to:

for option in $*; do

which it seems to accept.  Sheesh.

This is a Sunos 5.7 box, fyi.

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Geoffrey Furnish         fu...@ga...