With GNU Make 4.3.91 on Solaris 10 sparc, 'make check' fails as shown at
the end of this email.
Solaris 10 (supported by Oracle through January 2024) uses Perl 5.8.4.
tests/README says Perl 5.004 or later is needed, so I guess either that
README file needs to be updated to say a later Perl version is needed
(not sure which version), or tests/test_driver.pl needs to be backported
to Perl 5.8.4.
make check-local
cd tests && perl ./run_make_tests.pl -srcdir
/var/run/rpc_door/eggert/make-4.3.91 -make ../make
Can't locate object method "newdir" via package "File::Temp" at
/var/run/rpc_door/eggert/make-4.3.91/tests/test_driver.pl line 67.
Compilation failed in require at ./run_make_tests.pl line 36.
*** Error code 255
The following command caused the error:
if test -f './tests/run_make_tests'; then \
ulimit -n 128; \
if perl -v >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
case `cd '.'; pwd` in `pwd`) : ;; \
*) test -d tests || mkdir tests; \
rm -f srctests; \
if ln -s './tests' srctests; then \
for f in run_make_tests run_make_tests.pl test_driver.pl scripts
thelp.pl; do \
rm -f tests/$f; ln -s ../srctests/$f tests; \
done; fi ;; \
esac; \
echo "cd tests && perl ./run_make_tests.pl -srcdir
/var/run/rpc_door/eggert/make-4.3.91 -make ../make "; \
cd tests && perl ./run_make_tests.pl -srcdir
'/var/run/rpc_door/eggert/make-4.3.91' -make '../make' ; \
else \
echo "Can't find a working Perl (perl); the test suite requires
Perl."; \
fi; \
else \
echo "Can't find the GNU Make test suite (./tests)."; \
fi
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check-regression'
