build.sh broken on Solaris 10

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 23:40 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>>
>> Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> (11/11/2010):
>>> That's probably the bash manpage, since you're quoting from it.
>>
>> No, that's dash's. dash has some extra features on top of POSIX as far
>> as I can tell. See [1], no “local” (except for “locale” ;)) stuff
>> documented there.
>>
>> I have both "bash" and "dash" (first time I hear about it!) installed.
>>
>> man sh title: BSD General Commands Manual "command interpreter (shell)"
>> man bash title: GNU Bourne-Again SHell
>>
>> I'll gladly push a patch :-)
>
> On Debian, try installing posh (POsix SHell) and running the script
> with that. If you want old school Bourne shell compatibility (usually
> configure scripts strive for this), you can try the Heirloom Bourne
> shell, which is derived from OpenSolaris.
>
> http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/sh.html
>
> The documentation Thomas pointed you to should be helpful for POSIX
> shells, though.

That was Cyril Brulebois.

(I did consider pointing there also, but found the detail about the 
manpage more topical).

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