On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > autogen-5.8.8 on solaris 9 fails most of its tests, even with the latest
> > guile (1.8.1). I could not build it with guil-1.6.7, the previous stable
> > guile. Here is the output from
> > configure && [gmake output elided] && gmake check
> >
> > Is there anything else that I should tell you to help diagnose this?
>
> Nope. There was enough info:
>
> > + : === Running argument.test for argument using /bin/tcsh ===
>
> Any and all derivatives of the "csh" shell are virtually unusable
> as anything other than an interactive shell. It is very difficult
> to cope with the 25 year old /bin/sh on Solaris, but I think I've
> managed that, so this:
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh gmake check
>
> should work, but better is to use ksh:
>
> SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh gmake check
Thanks, I'll give that a go.
>
> I will go spend some time figuring out how to ensure that the configure
> shell is used for running tests. Thanks - Bruce
I found with (I think) GCC that I had to set CONFIG_SHELL as well as SHELL
to get it to work. However, configure discovers the correct thing to
do so often I forgot to try that.
>
Thank you.
Hugh
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