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Re: SunOS 4.1.4: autoconf 2.61: 73 failed tests


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1.4: autoconf 2.61: 73 failed tests
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:47:59 -0800
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Peter Klein <address@hidden> writes:

> Solaris 10: -> the tests seams to be looping in  79: Keywords and ranges 
>
> Solaris 10: -> the tests seams to be looping in  69: Keywords and ranges
>                when trying autoconf 2.60
>                
>                But the solaris 10 machine is set up pretty new and
>                still has very little gnu stuff. So might be a tool is missing.

You do need GNU m4, but that's the only GNU program you should need.
If there's any other dependency, please let us know.

Solaris 10 ships GNU m4 1.4.2 in /usr/sfw/bin/gm4 as part of the
SUNWgm4 package, but I suggest using the latest stable GNU release
instead, as Sun doesn't seem to patch its gm4 (even to fix known
bugs).


> I compiled and checked autoconf, Version: 2.61
> on my old Sparc Station, running SunOs 4.1.4.

Thanks for trying it, but I assume this is the same SunOS 4.1.4
machine we've talked about before?  That is, this is not really a
production machine, and you're just trying it to test Autoconf
for portability?

All the problems I noticed in your report (not that I scanned it that
carefully) are due to well-known bugs in the SunOS 4.1.4 /bin/sh.  You
should be able to work around them by installing and using Bash
instead.  That is, configure with:

CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash

However, my suggestion is not to spend a lot of time on it, since
nobody seems to use SunOS 4.1.4 any more in production environments
that desire new GNU tools.




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