Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59b] testsuite: 16 failed

[Shane Turner]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Shane Turner <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  
>
> > m4sh.at:88: ./test/test-2
> > --- expout      Fri Sep 24 12:06:24 2004
> > +++ 
> > /users/eng/bo-infra/turner/wd/External/autoconf-2.59b/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stdout
> >  Fri Sep 24 12:06:34 2004
> > @@ -1 +1 @@
> > -Line: 472
> > +Line: 103
> > 16. m4sh.at:26: 16. LINENO (m4sh.at:26): FAILED (m4sh.at:88)
> >    
>
> That's a relatively unimportant test failure (unset LINENO doesn't
> work, I guess?) but I'm puzzled by one thing: you're running on
> Solaris 2.6 and yet your configure script found /bin/bash.  But
> Solaris 2.6 doesn't have a /bin/bash.  Which version of Bash are you
> running and how was it built?  Perhaps that's the problem.
>
> This all vaguely reminds me of the 02-lineno.patch discussion in 2001; see
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2001-10/msg00005.html>.
>  
I'm guessing that someone compiled Bash years ago and put it there.

08:59:19 eng$ ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2232520 Oct 20  1998 /bin/bash
08:59:21 eng$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.01.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.6)
Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
08:59:25 eng$

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