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Bug #39835 Configure script fails with expr: syntax error
Submitted: 2006-12-14 22:05 UTC Modified: 2006-12-23 01:00 UTC
Votes:11
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.9
Reproduced:10 of 11 (90.9%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:1 (10.0%)
From: cheetah at tanabi dot org Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: *Compile Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.0 OS: Solaris 10
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-12-14 22:05 UTC] cheetah at tanabi dot org 
Description:
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Two notes; I have tried this on two separate Solaris 10 machines and I get this exact same error on both.  On both machines, past versions of PHP have successfully compiled -- namely PHP 5.1.6 and a few earlier ones as well.

Not doing anything particularly special here other than a 64 bit build (we use a large memory application with this) WHICH worked perfectly fine with 5.1.6...  The flags to build 64 bit are in CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, namely -mcpu=ultrasparc -m64 here's what happens:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/64 --enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-sockets --with-pgsql=/usr/local/64/pgsql --with-pdo-pgsql=/usr/local/64/pgsql --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/64 --enable-ftp --without-iconv
loading 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


'expr' shows up only about 60 billion times in the file, and I have been unable to reasonably isolate which one is actually failing.  Too bad shell scripts aren't nice enough to provide a line number! :)  I'm hoping someone can help me out here, and appologies if this has already been reported -- I did search the bug DB for quite awhile before posting :)


Thanks!


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 [2006-12-15 03:45 UTC] toomuchphp-phpbugs at yahoo dot com 
I had the some problem on OS X upgrading to 5.2, you just need to upgrade your shell (e.g., bash).
 [2006-12-15 04:52 UTC] cheetah at tanabi dot org 
Okay; I upgraded the bash on the system and made sure configure was using it (it was using /bin/sh, which is Sun's 'sh' and therefore could be problematic).  Bash is now at 3.2 and now when I run configure (same command as mentioned in the original bug):

loading 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: line 2333: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2346: test: =: unary operator expected


====

Then it continues on normally.  This problem looks like another problem I saw in the bug system, so I'll take a look around again for it.  The build was successful, so I'm inclined to not really care as much anymore :)  But if it's a real problem I'd like to help track it down all the same.
 [2006-12-15 09:59 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
What kind of Bash are you using? What is the version #?
 [2006-12-23 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2007-03-13 15:23 UTC] 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.
 [2007-06-12 09:49 UTC] 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.
 [2007-08-29 19:11 UTC] 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
 [2007-08-29 19:38 UTC] 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
 [2007-11-30 07:33 UTC] 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.
 [2016-07-19 14:32 UTC] strk at kbt dot io 
Same syntax error with expr coming with BusyBox v1.24.2 (2016-06-23 08:49:16 GMT) multi-call binary.
 
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