Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in Solaris test hoses Java config on Solaris

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Geoffrey Furnish writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I just had a configure failure on SunOS-5.7, when I used --enable-java.  The
 > following line in configure, causes an error:
 > 
 >     test -L java/plplot/core/config.java || (cd java/plplot/core; ln -s ../../../config.java .)
 > 
 > 
 > The error is:
 > 
 > $ test -L java/plplot/core/config.java || (cd java/plplot/core; ln -s ../../../config.java .)
 > test: argument expected
 > 
 > Curiously, if I am in C shell, or if I invoke the above line as /usr/bin/test
 > ..., then it works.  Only fails if entered exactly as shown above, which was
 > pasted in from the PLplot configure script.

It's probably a shell built-in, and doesn't support the -L syntax, or uses
something different (IIRC the AIX shell used -h instead of -L to test for
symlinks, back when we were at the IFS).  You might look for an alternate
(POSIX.2 compatible?) shell to use instead.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)