Re: GNU make 3.99.91 release candidate is available

[David Boyce]

Solaris has a really old, really broken, /bin/sh which they've kept around forever for compatibility reasons. Maybe there are some tests which assume features that aren't supported in Solaris /bin/sh?

David

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 10:23 +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> > Unfortunately I don't have a copy of Sun Studio and I don't have any
> > SPARC hardware.  I'll need someone with access to these to assist.
>
> That is no problem. There are already a number of GNU projects that use
> our buildfarm to ensure portability to Solaris:
>   http://www.opencsw.org/extend-it/signup/to-upstream-maintainers/
> The farm is equipped with Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11 both Sparc and x86
> and both Sun Studio compilers and gcc. Just let me know if you want
> an account and send me your ssh public key.

OK, will do.

> > The first thing to try is re-running configure with the
> > "--without-guile" option then rebuild, to see if that helps.  If it
> > does, then I think we'll need to reconvene this discussion on the
> > guile-users list.
>
> The compile works with --without-guile, but I get two possibly harmless
> warnings:

Hm.  I'll check with the Guile folks.

I think these warnings are harmless but I'll look.

> > "load.c", line 85: warning: assignment type mismatch:
> >         pointer to function(pointer to const struct  {pointer to const char filenm, unsigned long lineno}) returning int "=" pointer to void
> > "load.c", line 90: warning: assignment type mismatch:
> >         pointer to function(pointer to const struct  {pointer to const char filenm, unsigned long lineno}) returning int "=" pointer to void
>
> Additionally, there are a number of tests failing:
>
> > features/archives ....................................... FAILED (4/10 passed)
> > features/escape ......................................... FAILED (6/8 passed)
> > features/output-sync .................................... FAILED (8/9 passed)
> > targets/ONESHELL ........................................ Error running /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make (expected 0; got 512): /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make -f work/targets/ONESHELL.mk.1
> > FAILED (5/6 passed)
> > variables/SHELL ......................................... Error running /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make (expected 0; got 512): /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make -f work/variables/SHELL.mk.6
> > FAILED (7/8 passed)

This is much more concerning.



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