[tlbuild] Problem solved:: Cannot compile on OpenSolaris

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

>> In Work/build.log there are lines "checking for a sed that does"..., what
>> is
>> the result? Solaris sed or GNU sed?
>>
>
> checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/gsed
>
> This is from build.log so this means that it is able to find the "proper"
> sed but it does not use it at that point.

Hi Apostolos,

very good.  That test is on behalf of the libtool script which sets a shell
variable SED=/bin/gsed and then uses $SED. Doing now the same for
KPSE_LT_HACK (r18008).

>> (3) do you know what part of the expression can't be handled by Solaris
>> sed?
>>
>>
> OK after doing some search I have found the root of the problem: Modify file
> source/texk/web2c/configure as
> follows:
>
> .........
>
> In different words, just delete the space after the i modifier.

and also this.

This should now work for OpenSolaris out of the box.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>