Re[2]: autoconf-2.65 has 252 test failures on OpenSolaris x86

[Konstantin Andreev]

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > It's pretty ironic that a Solaris shell should warn about `...`, with Autoconf using 
> > > that construct mostly because shells like Solaris <=10 /bin/sh does not cope with 
> > > $(...).  Oh well.  Can the shell be told to not output these warnings somehow?  I took a 
> > > quick look at <http://dlc.sun.com/osol/man/downloads/current/> but couldn't find a 
> > > switch or environment variable to do so.
> >
> > I assume that this OpenSolaris system has the "new" ksh93 shell, which is 
> > vastly different than previous Solaris /bin/sh and includes much more than a shell (it is 
> > a shell + utilities).  The project page for this is at
> >
> >  http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ksh93%2Dintegration/
> Yes, it appears so. It links to a file ksh93.
>
> bash-3.2$ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          13 Oct 26 17:20 /bin/sh -> ../../sbin/sh
> bash-3.2$ ls -l /sbin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          20 Oct 26 17:17 /sbin/sh -> 
> ../usr/bin/i86/ksh93

But ksh93 does not complain about `...`, on neither X86, nor Sparc Solaris, 
look:

address@hidden ~]# sed -n -e 1p -e \$p /etc/release
                 Solaris Express Community Edition snv_122 SPARC
                            Assembled 24 August 2009
address@hidden ~]# /usr/bin/ksh93
address@hidden:~# echo =`sleep 1`=
==
address@hidden:~#

It looks like something goes wrong in other place.

Best regards,
--
Konstantin Andreev, software engineer.
Swemel JSC

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