Hi Paul, Am 23.10.2013 um 10:14 schrieb Paul Eggert : > Thanks for the quick feedback. Some comments: > > Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> >> I just tested on Solaris 10 Sparc with Sun Studio 12. First I get >> two warnings: >> >> cc: Warning: illegal option -fdiagnostics-show-option >> cc: Warning: illegal option -funit-at-a-time >> >> Maybe these should only be added when gcc is detected? > > I don't observe these warnings on my Solaris 10 sparc with Sun Studio > 12. (Specifically, this box is patched up through October 15, and is > running Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc 2011/11/16.) I configured with > './configure CC=cc'. > > I suspect you configured with --enable-gcc-warnings. If so, that's > probably the problem -- that option is intended for use with GCC, > and might not work with Sun C. Nope, but we are using git to apply our downstream patches. You may have a deja vu ;-) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-09/msg00058.html >> Two tests are failing.... >> >>> FAIL: ere >>> ========= >>> ... >>> ere.script: syntax error at line 3: `status=$' unexpected >>> ... >>> FAIL: spencer1-locale >>> ===================== >>> ... >>> spencer1-locale.script: syntax error at line 2: `status=$' unexpected > > I think these failures are due to the build-tool problem that I mentioned in > . > 'configure' is selecting /bin/sh, but on Solaris 10 it should > select /bin/bash. It's then getting confused by the $(...) > syntax, which is not supported by /bin/sh on Solaris 10. Yes, exactly. Best regards -- Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896