Running the test suite on Solaris 11.3 SPARC fails on a test in t1450-fsck.sh. not ok 60 - fsck --name-objects # # rm -rf name-objects && # git init name-objects && # ( # cd name-objects && # test_commit julius caesar.t && # test_commit augustus && # test_commit caesar && # remove_object $(git rev-parse julius:caesar.t) && # test_must_fail git fsck --name-objects >out && # tree=$(git rev-parse --verify julius:) && # grep "$tree (\(refs/heads/master\|HEAD\)@{[0-9]*}:" out # ) Solaris has /usr/bin/grep and /usr/bin/ggrep. grep is a solaris version and ggrep is the GNU grep. Replacing grep with ggrep in t1450-fsck.sh script the fixes the problem. I chatted with Ævar and he thinks that the problem is that configure finds the right grep but it is not properly passed to the tests. Furthermore I discovered that some tests in t3900-i18n-commit.sh are failing. e.g.: not ok 17 - ISO-2022-JP should be shown in UTF-8 now But that's another topic, which I will open once this is fixed. Greetings Michael