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

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 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

Yes, it is ironic. Does this mean autoconf is likely to be usable, or will the 
fact it issues these warnings during the tests mean autoconf will not work?

I've asked on comp.unix.solaris.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/692b977691175552#

so you can take a look there and see if there are any responses, but if I get 
anything useful back, I'll let you know.

Dave