Re: more GNU make 4.2.90 issues on Solaris 10

[Paul Eggert]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
> This is on a very up to date Oracle M3000 which is on contract support.

You've got better hardware than mine, which is a Sun Fire 280R (circa 2005) with 
two 750 MHz UltraSPARC III CPUs. It was most recently patched three weeks ago so 
it's reasonably up-to-date.

Our test results are quite close. My features/grouped_targets test passes due to 
my patch in that area (but I thought you are using that patch? maybe you could 
investigate your failure there). My features/load test passed whereas yours 
fails - don't know why that would be, and you might want to check that too. 
Otherwise the results seems the same.

Some configuration differences: I am using configure's defaults for CC (defaults 
to cc) and CFLAGS (defaults to -g) as opposed to your more up-to-date settings; 
this means I'm generating a 32-bit executable instead of a 64-bit one. My path 
is /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/perl5/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin which means 
hardly any GNU tools are used (only bash, I suppose). So our tests are diverse 
to some extent, as mine just use the classic 1990s 32-bit Solaris-sparc-sans-GNU 
tools.