On 11/03/2010 08:56 AM, Thomas Schulz wrote: > gzip 1.4 fails make check when built on Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 7 & Solaris 8 > using any of the following Sun compilers > cc: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2 > cc: Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09 > cc: Sun C 5.8 2005/10/13 > > with the message: > FAIL: tests/zgrep-f
I expect that this is a problem with your shell, not with the C compiler. Can you please verify this by sending us the first line of "zgrep"? My guess is that it reads "#!/bin/ksh"; that would probably explain things. I'll look into writing a fix. The problem is that the script assumes that if it makes file descriptor 6 open on a file, then that file descriptor is inherited by child processes: but POSIX does not guarantee this for the shell, so the script is not portable to ksh.
