Re: port coreutils "make check" to Solaris and other SVR4ish hosts

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> "make check" fails on Solaris 8 (and on more recent versions of
> Solaris) for two main reasons.  First, Solaris /bin/sh does not
> conform to Posix; it doesn't have $(...), for example.  Second, the
> parallel "make check" code added to coreutils in August relies on some
> GNU Make features that are extensions to Posix, and which are not
> supported by Solaris 'make'.
>
> Here's a patch to fix both problems.  They are a bit intermixed and
> it's easier for me to generate one patch to fix both, but I can try
> to disentangle them if you prefer.
>
> This doesn't fix all the 'make check' problems on Solaris, but it
> fixes most of them that weren't already fixed by the Perl-related
> patch I sent in a few minutes ago.

Thanks yet again!
Applied with one small change:

> 2007-11-15  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       Port to Solaris 'make' and use a Posixish sell on Solaris.
>       * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gnu-make, posix-shell.
...
> +groups: $(srcdir)/groups.sh Makefile

We don't need $(srcdir)/ in dependency lists, so I've removed that:

  groups: groups.sh Makefile