[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone? Q2

[Nathan Kunkee]

  On 04/28/11 11:08 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 28/04/11 13:52, Nathan Kunkee wrote:
>
>>> Ah that will probably be the problem - config/script/switch-arch
>>> contains the logic which detects how
>>> NATIVE_BITWIDTH_EQUALS_HOST_BITWIDTH and SWAP_ENDIANNESS should be set
>>> and adds them to CFLAGS in Makefile.target as appropriate.
>>>
>> OK. I'll start looking to see how to change that for by build 
>> environment.
>
> Great - thanks!
I figured it out!

/bin/sh, the default choice if you just run switch-arch, on OpenSolaris 
is ksh93, which silently fails on the $...bigendian tests. If I run 
switch-arch with /usr/xpg4/bin/sh or bash, it works fine and my builds 
from x86 and sparc are now correct and load. It looks like testing for 
$KSH_VERSION would be a way to find out if the shell isn't going to 
work, but I don't know if this would come up enough to warrant adding 
logic to check it.

Thanks,
Nathan