Solaris has a really old, really broken, /bin/sh which they've kept around forever for compatibility reasons. Maybe there are some tests which assume features that aren't supported in Solaris /bin/sh?
David On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 10:23 +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > > > Unfortunately I don't have a copy of Sun Studio and I don't have any > > > SPARC hardware. I'll need someone with access to these to assist. > > > > That is no problem. There are already a number of GNU projects that use > > our buildfarm to ensure portability to Solaris: > > http://www.opencsw.org/extend-it/signup/to-upstream-maintainers/ > > The farm is equipped with Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11 both Sparc and x86 > > and both Sun Studio compilers and gcc. Just let me know if you want > > an account and send me your ssh public key. > > OK, will do. > > > > The first thing to try is re-running configure with the > > > "--without-guile" option then rebuild, to see if that helps. If it > > > does, then I think we'll need to reconvene this discussion on the > > > guile-users list. > > > > The compile works with --without-guile, but I get two possibly harmless > > warnings: > > Hm. I'll check with the Guile folks. > > I think these warnings are harmless but I'll look. > > > > "load.c", line 85: warning: assignment type mismatch: > > > pointer to function(pointer to const struct {pointer to const > char filenm, unsigned long lineno}) returning int "=" pointer to void > > > "load.c", line 90: warning: assignment type mismatch: > > > pointer to function(pointer to const struct {pointer to const > char filenm, unsigned long lineno}) returning int "=" pointer to void > > > > Additionally, there are a number of tests failing: > > > > > features/archives ....................................... FAILED (4/10 > passed) > > > features/escape ......................................... FAILED (6/8 > passed) > > > features/output-sync .................................... FAILED (8/9 > passed) > > > targets/ONESHELL ........................................ Error > running > /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make > (expected 0; got 512): > /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make > -f work/targets/ONESHELL.mk.1 > > > FAILED (5/6 passed) > > > variables/SHELL ......................................... Error > running > /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make > (expected 0; got 512): > /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make > -f work/variables/SHELL.mk.6 > > > FAILED (7/8 passed) > > This is much more concerning. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make >
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