Bug #5594: test -e in configure is unportable

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [sparc-solaris2.10]

[ro (Rainer Orth)]

When I tried to build ruby 1.9.2-p290 on Solaris 10 (both SPARC and x86), it failed with an
error in the configure script:

checking for cd using phisical directory... ./configure: test: argument expected

While the typo has been fixed in 1.9.3-p0, the use of test -e is still there. Solaris
10 /bin/sh doesn't support it, it lets the configure script abort immediately, and it is
documented as `avoid/unportable' in the autoconf docs.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r33681.
Rainer, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• configure.in: should not use test -e for portability.
  [ruby-core:40841] [Bug #5594]