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

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I assume that this OpenSolaris system has the "new" ksh93 shell, which 
> is vastly different than previous Solaris /bin/sh and includes much more 
> than a shell (it is a shell + utilities).  The project page for this is at
>
>  http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ksh93%2Dintegration/

Yes, it appears so. It links to a file ksh93.

bash-3.2$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          13 Oct 26 17:20 /bin/sh -> ../../sbin/sh
bash-3.2$ ls -l /sbin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          20 Oct 26 17:17 /sbin/sh -> 
../usr/bin/i86/ksh93
bash-3.2$