tlmgr fails on Solaris 10

[Prof Brian Ripley]

which is a very old OS, but we still have a box running for 
software-testing purposes.

The problem is line 261 of TLUtils.pm,

       chomp (my $guessed_platform = `/bin/sh '$config_guess'`);

It seems config.guess has been taken from GNU Autoconf which tries hard 
to run it under a suitable shell, preferably Bash.  On Solaris /bin/sh 
is a real Bourne shell, but config.guess uses extensions and Autoconf 
has never used it.

My workaround has been to replace /bin/sh by /bin/bash, but 
unfortunately that needs to be done every time the infrastructure is 
updated.  It would be kinder to have a fix upstream.

BDR

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford