Hello David, * Dr. David Kirkby wrote on Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:46:52PM CET: > I've got a Sun Ultra 27 running OpenSolaris (06/2009 release). This > is a quad core 3.33 GHz Xeon machine - not a SPARC. [...] > But when I try to build autoconf, there are a large number of > failures. Any ideas what is wrong? Yes: your shell is very chatty: > configure: warning: line 946: " quote may be missing > configure: warning: line 955: `...` obsolete, use $(...) > configure: warning: line 960: `...` obsolete, use $(...) > configure: warning: line 962: " quote may be missing > configure: warning: line 993: `...` obsolete, use $(...) > configure: warning: line 1014: `...` obsolete, use $(...) > configure: warning: line 1036: `...` obsolete, use $(...) > configure: warning: line 1041: $ not preceeded by \ and the Autoconf testsuite tries to be strict about warning output. It's pretty ironic that a Solaris shell should warn about `...`, with Autoconf using that construct mostly because shells like Solaris <=10 10) /bin/sh does not cope with $(...). Oh well. Can the shell be told to not output these warnings somehow? I took a quick look at <http://dlc.sun.com/osol/man/downloads/current/> but couldn't find a switch or environment variable to do so. Thanks for the report, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
