Singular-3-1-3-3 doesn't build on Solaris

[Volker Braun]

Hi Hans,

Sun's implementation of "test" doesn't understand "==", equality of strings needs to be tested by "=". Otherwise the Singular/configure script fails with

[...]

checking whether compiler accepts -pipe... (cached) yes

checking whether _AIX is defined... (cached) no

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes

configure: warning: building without lex -- make might fail

checking for bison... (cached) where-is-your-bison

checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes

checking for perl5... (cached) perl

./configure: test: unknown operator ==

configure: error: ./configure failed for Singular

Unable to configure Singular.

I'll attach a patch for Singular/configure.in. Unfortunately my autoconf seems to be too incompatible, so I can't make the configure script. But I manually changed == to = in configure and it worked, so I'm fairly confident that the patch to the autoconf sources is correct.

Best wishes,

Volker

[Hans Schoenemann]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 08:19:09AM -0700, Volker Braun wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Sun's implementation of "test" doesn't understand "==", equality of strings
> needs to be tested by "=". Otherwise the Singular/configure script fails
> with
>
> [...]

> checking for perl5... (cached) perl
> ./configure: test: unknown operator ==
> configure: error: ./configure failed for Singular
> Unable to configure Singular.
>

Hi Volker,
thanks for the patch, it will be in the next version.

Hans