bug#30612: [automake-1.16] make check fails on Solaris 11.3 x86

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hello,

Kiyoshi KANAZAWA <address@hidden> writes:

> Trying to install automake-1.16 on Solaris 11.3 x86.
> make check fails with
>
> FAIL: t/lex-clean-cxx.sh
> FAIL: t/lex-depend-cxx.sh
>
>
> It seems to be caused by declaration of yylex ().
> lex-clean-cxx.log & lex-depend-cxx.log are attached.
>
>
> Tested with gcc 7.3.0, 
>
> % ./configure
> % make
> % make check
>

This is likely related to commit
826408a7f6ca4c39ff7b7ac9952c05f48110748f [1] which make those tests work
with Flex 2.6.4 and g++ 7.3.

If you know a good way to achieve a better compatibility than the
solution chosen by that commit, I would be interested.

Thanks for the report.

[1] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=826408a7f6ca4c39ff7b7ac9952c05f48110748f

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