Re: autoconf "make check" is reeeeeeeeeeeeally slow on Solaris 8

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

>> This is the standard Solaris 8 /bin/sh, as patched by Sun on
>> 2005-02-18 in Sun patch 109324-08.  One of the patches affects how
>> /tmp files are created.  Perhaps that leads to the difference we're
>> observing?
>
> It seems that patch is obsoleted by Sun patch 109324-09.[1]

.... dated March 29.  And that patch fixes a bug that seems relevant
to our problem: "6277636 *sh* can crash if it creates too many
temporary files".  But....

> The system I test on has ... Patch: 109324-05

109324-05 does have the predictable-tempfile fix, and so I'd expect
that it would have the same performance problems that 109324-08 does,
if that fix were the underlying problem.  But as you've reported, it
doesn't have the performance problem.  And the changes between
109324-05 and 109324-08 do not seem relevant to the problem.  So, most
likely, it's something else.

> (I do not have control over the system.)

Likewise.

I will scrounge up a Solaris 8 system that I do have more control
over, bring it up to date with respect to patches, and see how well it
does.  It'll take a couple of days though.