Re: [Grep-devel] buildbot failure in OpenCSW Buildbot on ggrep-solaris10-sparc

[Paul Eggert]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> The error lies in #72 in your configure.ac

Thanks for helping to debug it. configure.ac is itself OK; the problem is that 
build-aux/git-version-gen is a shell script that uses the construct ${v#-g*} in 
line 170, and Solaris 10 /bin/sh does not understand that construct.

It seems to me that the Buildbot configuration is still at fault here, because 
the code in question runs before 'configure' is invoked. We do not attempt to be 
portable to arbitrary development environments in the pre-configure stage of the 
build, as it is reasonable to assume that developers are running recent-enough 
versions of Autoconf, M4, Git, etc., and it's not necessary to run these tools 
to build from distribution tarballs.

Because there is an easy fix in Gnulib I installed the attached patch. However, 
in the long run if you want to continue to build on Solaris 10 I expect you will 
need to fix the Buildbot procedure so that it does only './configure; make' on 
Solaris 10. That is what I do, when I test on Solaris 10.

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