I switched over to a whole other server and tried again with
very few dependencies installed.  The result was 8 failures :

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.14
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 2708
# PASS:  2377
# SKIP:  282
# XFAIL: 41
# FAIL:  8
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================

So I am at a loss how to proceed here.  Simply put it looks like automake 1.14
will not build cleanly on Solaris 10 and I need to revert to an earlier version.

Dennis

ps: test-suite log attached