Re: autoconf "make check" is reeeeeeeeeeeeally slow on Solaris 8

[Noah Misch]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:22:33PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I tried running "make check" with Autoconf on Solaris 8, configuring
> with CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh, and found that it ran reeeeeeeeeeeeally
> slowly.  On my host (a 4-processor 1 GHz sparcv9) the first test case
> took more than 3 hours, at which point I killed it.

That is strange; Ralf reported a recent, successful test on Solaris 8 in
<address@hidden>.  Does the test case hang even without
CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh (I would not expect any difference)?

> I discovered that the problem is at least partly due to the fact that
> "/bin/sh -n" is very slow on this host.  I.e., "/bin/sh -n testsuite"
> takes more than 3 hours.

Is it actually slow, versus hanging on some construct?  How long does it take to
check smaller shell scripts, such as `configure' and `config.guess'?