Re: Errors on Solaris

[John Darrington]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 09:08:55AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > The only two test failures now should be two which use $PPID which is
     > a bash thing and non-portable.
     
     We could do something like
             if test -z "$PPID"; then
                 exit 77             # Make automake ignore this test
             fi
     to cater to systems that don't have it.

That would be one option.
     
     But it's not a bashism.  This is what SUSv3 says:

Well it's not recognised by the /bin/sh which ships with Solaris9.

One construct which seems to work both on solaris and on GNU/Linux is
"ps -o ppid -p $$ | tail -1"  but I don't know what BSD and all the
other OSes might think of that.

J'

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