1998.04.21 11:40 "I cant "configure" on a DEC", by Silverman Bill
tiff-v3.4beta037
on:
ULTRIX white 4.3 1 RISC
the configure script produces the diagnostic:
configure: syntax error at line 76: `(' unexpected
If I comment out the function bitch(), I get:
configure: syntax error at line 85: `(' unexpected
etc.
Apparently my /bin/sh doesn't like you to declare functions. I looked at the man page for sh, and sure enough, the spec for:
name () {list;}
is missing - i.e. you cant define a function in an sh script. Is there some simple known hack for this problem?
/bin/sh is the oldest file in /bin (on white):
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 45056 Nov 15 1991 sh*
Happy configurations.
bill