bug#12250: Please report to address@hidden

[Stefano Lattarini]

tags 12250 - moreinfo
close 12250
thanks

On 08/24/2012 02:39 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
Hi Daniel, sorry for the delay.

I'm re-adding the mailing list in CC:.  Could you please keep it in
the loop in future replies (if any)?  Thanks.

> here the answer:
> 
> prompt> ksh -c 'echo "$ZSH_VERSION"; echo "$BASH_VERSION"' 
> ksh: ZSH_VERSION: parameter not set
> prompt> ksh -c 'echo "$BASH_VERSION"' 
> ksh: BASH_VERSION: parameter not set
> prompt> 
>
Thanks.  A shell shouldn't *by default* bail out when expanding an unset
variable (it should just expand it to the empty string).  So this is
either a problem with your Korn shells, or (more likely) with you
environment (maybe there's some kind of setup that is causing all ksh
invocation to somehow activate the 'nounset' shell option?).

> in the meantime I changed my default shell from ksh to bash replacing
> sun's original bash shell with gnu bash 4.2.0 (and had to correct a lot
> of statements in my startup scripts). Additionally I made gcc to the
> default cc.
>
There should be no need for any if these steps.  The Autotools are
expected to work correctly with any decent shell and compiler (in
particular, I quite regularly run the Automake testsuite on Solaris 10
with the Sun C, C++ and Fortran compilers and the /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
POSIX shell, with no error).

> Then I rebuilt automake completely. The tests run very long
> so sorry for the delay. Please find the test output in the attachment.
>
The errors I see are still the ones that I was seeing in your last report,
which we have concluded are either spurious or due to system breakages that
Automake is not responsible about, nor can be expected to work around.
So I say we can now close this bug report (and I'm doing this right now).
Thanks,

> If the problem was my (obsolete) environment and I was wasting your time
> please accept my apology.
>
No need to apologize, bug reports are always welcome; also, I wouldn't
define Solaris 9 "obsolete" yet (I'd call it "ageing"), so your report
was actually valuable.

> Best regards
> 
> Daniel
> 

Thanks, and best regards,
  Stefano