Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.72e] testsuite: 11 119 261 failed on Solaris 11.4 x86

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-12-21 19:56, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2023-12-21 19:34, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >    ulimit -f 0
> >    trap "" XFSZ
> >    printf "test" >test || echo failed with status $?
> >
> > which issues the following diagnostics on Solaris 10 /bin/sh:
> >
> >    printf: write error: File too large
> >    failed with status 1
> I think you might want to double check your test setup.

Oh, you're right. I put /opt/sfw/bin early in my PATH. 
/opt/sfw/bin/printf is part of Solaris (it's in the SFWcoreu package) 
but it is optional and obviously not everybody puts it early.

With PATH='/usr/bin' I get the broken (non-POSIX) behavior.