patch: Solaris lacks test -e

[David Collier-Brown]

   Sh is pretty ancient!

--dave

Bjoern JACKE wrote:
> On 2006-03-03 at 12:22 -0500 David Collier-Brown sent off:
> 
>>   Solaris /bin/test does know about -e, as do bash, ksh, etc
>> just not sh.
> 
> 
> then we would need a configure test for Solaris to examine what shell or 
> what test binary to use, as one special shell like ksh or bash cannot be 
> found on any system? -f works fine at all the places where -e was used. 
> But in fact I was quite surprised that /bin/sh on Solaris doesn't 
> implement test -e, I thought this would be a very basic thing.
> 
> Bjoern
> 

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