gzip-1.3.11 build feedback

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I have just completed builds of gzip-1.3.11 in bare (./configure && make ...)
and customized (set CC, LDFLAGS, etc for ./configure) environments:
45 in all, of which 41 succeeded and reported all tests passed.

The failures are on NetBSD 1.6 on IA-32, and Sun Solaris 7 SPARC (a
rather old O/S and hardware due to be retired in the next few months).

On NetBSD, the builds end like this:

        gzip <gzip.doc >gzip.doc.gz
        { test '.' != . || GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz; }
        GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c ./gzip.doc ./gzip.doc
        GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff ./gzip.doc gzip.doc.gz
        GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c - ./gzip.doc <gzip.doc.gz
        GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz gzip.doc.gz
        ./zdiff[157]: gzip -cdfq -- gzip.doc.gz 4>&-; echo 0 >&4) 3>&- 5<&- 
</dev/null |
                                       eval ${DIFF-diff} '-c' -- /dev/fd/5 -) 
5<&0
                                : unexpected `gzip'
        make[2]: *** [check-local] Error 2

On Solaris, the failure is similar:

        { test '.' != . || GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz; }
        GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c ./gzip.doc ./gzip.doc
        GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff ./gzip.doc gzip.doc.gz
        GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c - ./gzip.doc <gzip.doc.gz
        GZIP_BINDIR=. ./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz gzip.doc.gz
        make[2]: *** [make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/export/nova/build-local/build/cc/gzip-1.3.11'
        make[2]: [check-local] Error 2

Without delving into the test suite, I don't know what "error 2" means 
in these failures.

A "find . -type f -newer gzip" command finds no further file evidence
of the failure.

What should I look for?

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