Re: [Grep-devel] buildbot failure in OpenCSW Buildbot on ggrep-solaris10-sparc

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Paul,

Am 21.08.2017 um 02:08 schrieb Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> The error lies in #72 in your configure.ac
> 
> Thanks for helping to debug it. configure.ac is itself OK; the problem is 
> that build-aux/git-version-gen is a shell script that uses the construct 
> ${v#-g*} in line 170, and Solaris 10 /bin/sh does not understand that 
> construct.
> 
> It seems to me that the Buildbot configuration is still at fault here, 
> because the code in question runs before 'configure' is invoked. We do not 
> attempt to be portable to arbitrary development environments in the 
> pre-configure stage of the build, as it is reasonable to assume that 
> developers are running recent-enough versions of Autoconf, M4, Git, etc., and 
> it's not necessary to run these tools to build from distribution tarballs.

Definitely, that is why I invoke „bootstrap“ with /opt/csw/bin/bash and $SHELL 
is set
correctly. Shouldn’t $SHELL be used for the tools invoked from „bootstrap“?

> Because there is an easy fix in Gnulib I installed the attached patch. 
> However, in the long run if you want to continue to build on Solaris 10 I 
> expect you will need to fix the Buildbot procedure so that it does only 
> './configure; make' on Solaris 10. That is what I do, when I test on Solaris 
> 10.

I am not sure what needs adjustment here, from your comment I read that the PATH
should include something like bash as /bin/sh which I cannot provide, or did I
missing something here?

Your fix worked and there are now 2 test failures:
  
https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/buildbot/builders/ggrep-solaris10-sparc/builds/94


Best regards

  — Dago


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