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In the message Jarkko posted about the perl@18639 5.8.1 candidate
at:
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-02/msg00054.html
it appears that change 18638 integrated changes 18624 and 18626
having to do with a Plan 9 avoidance scheme. Unfortunately it appears
that that scheme now uses the unportable "test -e" file tests
and runs like so on Solaris 8:
% sh Configure -des
Configure: test: unknown operator /dev/cputype
%
With this patch applied I can once again run Configure and build perl
on Solaris (SunOS 2.8):
--- Configure.orig Thu Feb 20 11:01:23 2003
+++ Configure Thu Feb 20 11:02:05 2003
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
(exit $?0) || exec sh $0 $argv:q
rm -f c1$$ c2$$
-if test -e /dev/cputype -a -e /dev/drivers -a -e /dev/osversion -a -e /dev/bintime; then
+if test -f /dev/cputype -a -f /dev/drivers -a -f /dev/osversion -a -f /dev/bintime; then
cat >&4 <<EOF
***
*** I'm sorry but this system looks like Plan 9 and Plan 9 doesn't do
End of Patch.
Unfortunately I have no Plan 9 systems around here on which to test whether
the "test -f" replacement for "test -e" does in fact find the /dev/cputype and
other files hence I cannot tell whether this change is appropriate (although I
note that "test -f" is used in lots of other places in Configure).
Peter Prymmer
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