Re: autoconf-2.65 has 252 test failures on OpenSolaris x86

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello David,

* Dr. David Kirkby wrote on Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:46:52PM CET:
> I've got a Sun Ultra 27 running OpenSolaris (06/2009 release). This
> is a quad core 3.33 GHz Xeon machine - not a SPARC.
[...]
> But when I try to build autoconf, there are a large number of
> failures. Any ideas what is wrong?

Yes: your shell is very chatty:

> configure: warning: line 946: " quote may be missing
> configure: warning: line 955: `...` obsolete, use $(...)
> configure: warning: line 960: `...` obsolete, use $(...)
> configure: warning: line 962: " quote may be missing
> configure: warning: line 993: `...` obsolete, use $(...)
> configure: warning: line 1014: `...` obsolete, use $(...)
> configure: warning: line 1036: `...` obsolete, use $(...)
> configure: warning: line 1041: $ not preceeded by \

and the Autoconf testsuite tries to be strict about warning output.

It's pretty ironic that a Solaris shell should warn about `...`, with
Autoconf using that construct mostly because shells like Solaris <=10
10) /bin/sh does not cope with $(...).  Oh well.  Can the shell be told
to not output these warnings somehow?  I took a quick look at
<http://dlc.sun.com/osol/man/downloads/current/> but couldn't find a
switch or environment variable to do so.

Thanks for the report,
Ralf