Rainer Orth wrote:
When trying DejaGnu 1.6.3 rc1 on Solaris 10, it failed immediately with:
runtest: syntax error at line 43: `execpath=$' unexpected
The script hardcodes #!/bin/sh, but the Solaris 10 /bin/sh is
effectively the old Bourne Shell and doesn't support $().
There are several options, I believe:
* Substitute a shell that does (like /bin/ksh in the Solaris 10 case).
* Rework the script to avoid the construct.
* Give up in horror and declare Solaris 10 unsupported, preferably with
a decent error message at configure time.
I had expected that some system out there might do this when I resisted
pressure to more aggressively use newer shell constructs in the
"dejagnu" multipurpose launcher script.
The previous maintainer had changed this because shellcheck complains
about the old `backticks` form. I have chosen rework the script to
return to `` instead of $() and `expr ...` instead of $((...)) before rc2.
As I am unable to test on Solaris, these reports are particularly
helpful. A patch has been pushed to Savannah on the "dejagnu-1.6.3"
branch and will be included in release candidate 2. While I would
prefer if you could confirm that the patch fixes this bug prior to
releasing rc2, I will understand if you do not have Git on your Solaris
machine.
This issue should be fixed in commit
e3b14d8555c5cabad03b9ccaa6aa1976ed590201 on the dejagnu-1.6.3 branch.
After the 1.6.3 release, bugfixes on that branch will be forward-ported
to master.
I plan to look at the other two bugs you reported tomorrow.
-- Jacob
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