Gnulib generates non-portable shell constructs, which interferes with
configuring Emacs on Solaris 10 using /bin/sh.

See

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2023-04/msg01590.html

Would this be a sufficient solution?  I've not had a chance to test it
yet.

2023-04-26  Po Lu  <luang...@yahoo.com>

        * pygnulib/GLEmiter.py (GLEmiter.autoconfSnippets): Avoid
        non-portable Bourne shell construct.

diff --git a/pygnulib/GLEmiter.py b/pygnulib/GLEmiter.py
index 93f50b728c..dc46ba89e9 100644
--- a/pygnulib/GLEmiter.py
+++ b/pygnulib/GLEmiter.py
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ class GLEmiter(object):
                         shellvar = module.getShellVar()
                         emit += '  %s ()\n' % shellfunc
                         emit += '  {\n'
-                        emit += '    if ! $%s; then\n' % shellvar
+                        emit += '    if $%s; then :; else\n' % shellvar
                         emit += self.autoconfSnippet(module, toplevel,
                                                      disable_libtool, 
disable_gettext, replace_auxdir, '      ')
                         emit += '      %s=true\n' % shellvar

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