ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Wed Sep 24 14:39:16 EDT 2008


On Sep 22, 2008, at 13:43 , Christian Maeder wrote:
> Matthias Kilian wrote:
>>> 2.
>>> /bin/sh: test: argument expected
>>> gmake[1]: *** [binary-dist] Error 1
>>>
>>> -e does not work for test under "sh", so I changed it to "-r":
>>> ... if [ -r $$FILE ]; then ...
>>
>> I doubt `-e' doesn't work on Solaris, because `-e' is POSIX. Does
>> this "argument expected" still appear with your fix to 1.?
>
> It does not work on my system (SunOS 5.10 Generic_137112-07 i86pc):

Solaris's /bin/sh is not POSIX; /usr/xpg4/bin/sh is the POSIX  
compatible shell.

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