21.5.15, test -e & XPG4 sh on Solaris

xemacs-beta: I was trying to configure xemacs 21.5.15 and configure failed when it tried to run config.status, specifically, on a test statement. This is the same "bug" that I have found with other packages, i.e. test -e is not supported by /bin/test which is called by scripts that have the first line as #!/bin/sh Sun decided to support the XPG4 standard by an alternate set of binaries in /usr/xpg4/bin, i.e. /usr/xpg4/bin/sh uses /usr/xpg4/bin/test which supports -e. This is the case with Solaris 2.8, which I am using, and earlier releases as well. However, there doesn't appear to be an obvious solution, unless I am missing it. What would be nice is if there was an option for configure like --with-sh=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh so that config.status would be created with a first line of #!/usr/xpg4/bin/sh Any other ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. Rodney Sparapani Medical College of Wisconsin Sr. Biostatistician Patient Care & Outcomes Research rsparapa(a)mcw.edu http://www.mcw.edu/pcor Was 'Name That Tune' rigged? WWLD -- What Would Lombardi Do