Bug #39835 [Com]: Configure script fails with expr: syntax error

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39835&edit=1 ID: 39835 Comment by: strk at kbt dot io Reported by: cheetah at tanabi dot org Summary: Configure script fails with expr: syntax error Status: No Feedback Type: Bug Package: *Compile Issues Operating System: Solaris 10 PHP Version: 5.2.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Same syntax error with expr coming with BusyBox v1.24.2 (2016-06-23 08:49:16 GMT) multi-call binary. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-30 07:33:22] bill at bt-systems dot com I encountered this problem on Solaris 10 x86 as well. My path specified /usr/ucb before /usr/bin. Apparently the version of expr in /usr/ucb is not compatible with PHP's configure script. Simply removing /usr/ucb from my path fixed the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-08-29 19:38:02] jd at cpanel dot net the expr info page suggests the expr tests in configure should be quoted with a leading space to avoid being interpreted as flags and remain as portable as possible: diff -Nur php-5.2.3.orig/acinclude.m4 php-5.2.3/acinclude.m4 --- php-5.2.3.orig/acinclude.m4 2007-05-24 16:40:41.000000000 -0500 +++ php-5.2.3/acinclude.m4 2007-08-29 14:30:40.000000000 -0500 @@ -2504,20 +2504,20 @@ done echo "'[$]0' \\" >> $1 - if test expr -- [$]0 : "'.*" = 0; then + if test expr " [$]0" : " '.*" = 0; then CONFIGURE_COMMAND="$CONFIGURE_COMMAND '[$]0'" else CONFIGURE_COMMAND="$CONFIGURE_COMMAND [$]0" fi for arg in $ac_configure_args; do - if test expr -- $arg : "'.*" = 0; then - if test expr -- $arg : "--.*" = 0; then + if test expr " $arg" : " '.*" = 0; then + if test expr " $arg" : " --.*" = 0; then break; fi echo "'[$]arg' \\" >> $1 CONFIGURE_COMMAND="$CONFIGURE_COMMAND '[$]arg'" else - if test expr -- $arg : "'--.*" = 0; then + if test expr " $arg" : " '--.*" = 0; then break; fi echo "[$]arg \\" >> $1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-08-29 19:11:51] jd at cpanel dot net Passing -- to mark the end of flags for expr doesn't work everywhere. # expr --version | head -1 expr (GNU coreutils) 5.2.1 # expr -- hello hello # expr --version | head -1 expr (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 # expr -- hello expr: syntax error ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-12 09:49:56] aklx at ee dot cuhk dot edu dot hk I had similar problem with php5.2.3 and php4.4.7. I was building php for my horde package and the following was observed when running configure(Sun Sparc Solaris 2.9): # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php.5.23 > --with-apxs=/usr/apache2/bin/apxs \ > > >> --with-gettext --with-dom \ > >> --with-iconv --enable-mbstring=all --enable-mbregex \ > >> --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql > >> > creating cache ./config.cache > checking for Cygwin environment... no > checking for mingw32 environment... no checking for egrep... egrep > checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/local/bin/sed > expr: syntax error > ../configure: test: argument expected I used gnu sed when I had the problem when using the Solairs sed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-03-13 15:23:11] v2 at petrov dot ks dot ua Have same error when try to compile php-4.4.6 # ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for egrep... grep -E checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed expr: syntax error ./configure: test: =: unary operator expected ... OS Red Hat 7.3 # bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # expr --version expr (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 Written by Mike Parker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39835 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39835&edit=1