Re: [xml] make tests fails on sparc solaris2.6

[Gary Pennington <Gary Pennington uk sun com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:16:32AM +0000, Gary Pennington wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > There appear to be differences in the way that GNU make and Solaris make 
> > interpret the return code of make actions. Without going into the 
> > details, this means that you need to use GNU make to run make tests, not 
> > the Solaris (i.e. /usr/ccs/bin/make or the Forte tools make). You can 
> > download the GNU make from http://www.sunfreeware.com.
>
>  Hum, if it fails only inside make tests, then fixing the Makefile.am
> to have it work is worth it. Do you have an idea of what is needed ?
> It's probably quite simple.
>
> Daniel
I did track it down sometime earlier this year, but the detail escapes 
me now. The problem is manifested wherever you have the line
grep "MORY ALLO" .memdump  | grep -v "MEMORY ALLOCATED : 0";\

It may be down to the way in which GNU make and Solaris make interpret 
return codes from shell conditionals. I think that Solaris make is 
stricter and if any step of a conditional block returns false, then the 
action fails whereas GNU make only checks the result of the conditional 
evaluation and not the individual actions. I don't think I ever did get 
to the bottom of that problem and it's probably not simple to make it 
"right" everywhere.

Gary

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Gary Pennington
Solaris Kernel Development,
Sun Microsystems
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