This only occurs if you have LANG != C. This is a known bug with
/bin/sh fixed by installing Patch-ID# 101613-01. Or, you can use
-bash, as a workaround.
+bash by setting the environment variable CONFIG_SHELL to /bin/bash
+
+*** Solaris 2.x configure fails: ./config.status: test: argument expected
+
+This is a known bug with /bin/sh and /bin/test, i.e. they do not
+support the XPG4 standard. You can use bash as a workaround or an
+XPG4-compliant Bourne shell such as the Sun-supplied /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
+by setting the environment variable CONFIG_SHELL to /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
*** On SunOS, you get linker errors
ld: Undefined symbol