Thanks for the ideas. I was using /bin/sh (my call to configure is in a shell script). I tried /usr/xpg4/bin/sh, but I still get the same error. I also tried changing the configure script to call echo $output_flags, but no change. :/
Thanks very much for the ideas, though. Ed On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com>wrote: > Ed Hillmann <ed.hillm...@gmail.com> writes: > > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... build/install-sh -c > > configure: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library configuration > > checking for APR... yes > > checking APR version... 1.4.5 > > /u01/ct/ctapp/subversion-1.7.0/configure: bad substitution > > > > > > I can't see what is causing the bad substitution error. > > > printf "%s" "${output_flags# }" > > I'm guessing it's the # substitution in that line. Which shell are you > using? It's a long time since I used Solaris but there used to be > /usr/xpg4/bin/sh that was more like the shells commonly found on Linux. > Perhaps you could use that. Alternatively you may be able to replace > the above line with: > > echo $output_flags > > it occurs in several places in configure. > > -- > Philip >