On a Solaris 10 system, I am compiling exiv2 for the first time.

After running configure, when I type gmake from the top-level

directory, I get the following:



gmake

if test "x1" = "x1"; then cd xmpsdk/src && gmake xmpsdk; fi;

gmake[1]: Entering directory `/u/src/lib/exiv2/exiv2-0.18/xmpsdk/src'

  g++ -O2 -Wall -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wformat-security

-Wmissing-format-attribute -Woverloaded-virtual -W -MMD -I.

-I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/lib/include

-DEXV_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/X11/lib/share/locale\" -I../include

-funsigned-char -DNDEBUG=1 -I/opt/csw/lib/include

-DEXV_HAVE_STDINT_H=1 -c ParseRDF.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ParseRDF.o

  g++ -O2 -Wall -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wformat-security

-Wmissing-format-attribute -Woverloaded-virtual -W -MMD -I.

-I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/lib/include

-DEXV_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/X11/lib/share/locale\" -I../include

-funsigned-char -DNDEBUG=1 -I/opt/csw/lib/include

-DEXV_HAVE_STDINT_H=1 -c ParseRDF.cpp -o ParseRDF.o >/dev/null 2>&1

/bin/sh: test: argument expected

gmake[1]: *** [ParseRDF.o] Error 1

gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/u/src/lib/exiv2/exiv2-0.18/xmpsdk/src'

gmake: *** [xmpsdk] Error 2



Notice that the compile for the file succeeds but there is a shell

error.  If I retype "gmake" it moves on to the next file and repeats

the same error.  On and on.  I have run gmake in debug mode, but there

is no expanded info regarding the error which is being returned from

the shell and not gmake.  There is only one line in the Makefile that

references $(SHELL):



$(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/config.status --recheck



and I don't see where the test problem is there, if that is the

problem at all.  Any ideas as to what might be the problem and the

solution?  Thank.

--

Jeffery Small

> Any ideas as to what might be the problem and the

> solution?



Hi Jeffery,



Quick guess: Have you tried to run configure with the option

--disable-dependency-tracking? This tracking runs some shell code

right after each compile command.



Andreas



PS: Please continue the discussion on the new forum,

http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/boards. This group ought to be

closed for posting, I hope I'll find the time to sort this out over

the weekend. See http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/exiv2/message/1499

for context.

Andreas:



Yes, you were correct.  I did manage to get it to compile using "gmake

-i", but I added the configure flag you suggested, did a "make clean;

configure; gmake" and everything built just fine.  Thank you for your

quick and accurate suggestion!



Someone on the build team should look into this and see what is

causing the problem on a Solaris system.  Since /bin/sh is a true

Bourne shell here, there must be some incompatibility with the shell

used on Linux (assuming no one on that platform is seeing this problem).



I don't know how to migrate this discussion to the new groups, but I

will use them exclusively from this point onward.



Thanks again.



Regards,

--

Jeff