>Number:         29576
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       pkgtools/rc.subr breaks on Solaris 9
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 02 14:54:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
>Release:        Solaris 9 (SPARC), current pkgsrc
>Organization:
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>Environment:

SunOS sunchen 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

>Description:

	It appears to be a general trend in pkgsrc to replace a
	back-tick evaluation of commands `echo foo` with $(echo
	foo). Unfortunately, the SunOS /usr/bin/sh doesn't know the
	latter expression. And since rc.subr is only sourced by the
	rc.d scripts, there is nothing the script itself can do about
	the issue - other than change the $(...)s back to `...`s.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Build wip/isc_dhcpd on Solaris 9. Find that its rc.d script
	wants rc.subr, install the package, see a

[hf@sunchen] /etc # rc.d/isc_dhcpd start
rc.d/isc_dhcpd: syntax error at line 66: `_osname=$' unexpected

>Fix:
	(1) Change the $(...)s back to `...`s.
Or
	(2) Make sure that _all_ rc.d scripts installed use
	    /usr/xpg4/bin/sh on Solaris.
	

>Unformatted: