I finally could not take dealing with the pathetic default sh in solaris 10.
I would love to install a modern version of bash--has anyone had success doing this?
I found an old but nice tutorial here:
[http://everythingsolaris.org/articles/mtbays/frameset.html]
and followed its instructions exactly except that I used modern versions of stuff.
Here is exactly what I did:
download bash-3.2.17-sol10-x86-local.gz from http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistintel10.html
gunzip bash-3.2.17-sol10-sparc-local.gz
pkgadd -d bash-3.2.17-sol10-sparc-local
(then answer y to create /usr/local)
(pkgadd claimed that the installation was a success)
pkginfo -l SMCbash (to confirm the installation)
similar procedure for libiconv-1.11-sol10-x86-local.gz, which is somethign that bash on solaris is dependent on
I then tried running
/usr/local/bin/bash
but I get the error
ld.so.1: bash: fatal: /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2: wrong ELF data format: ELFDATA2LSB
Does anyone have any idea what went wrong and how to cure?