Re: XFAIL and make

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Patrick,

* Patrick Welche wrote on Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:05:59PM CET:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:06:52AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> It seems NetBSD ksh ( == @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2) has lots of bugs.
> (I should have remembered make uses sh which works, but gmake/autotools
> choose bash over ksh over sh (is that right?))

> > This violates POSIX.  Can you please file a bug report with NetBSD?
> 
> I'll add another one to the list.

Thanks.

> > I've applied this patch to master, and likewise (without the
> > keep_testdirs bits) to branch-1-10.  For now I don't know of
> > a better way to automatically test for this issue than to
> > encourage users to try MAKE=gmake.
> 
> ... or pick sh over (pd)ksh?

Yes, or that.  For now, you can use
  CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh
  export CONFIG_SHELL
  $CONFIG_SHELL ./configure [...]

Cheers,
Ralf