Re: RCS 5.9.0 does not compile on Solaris

() Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
() Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:29:16 -0700

   The main problem comes from quirks in Solaris 9 /bin/sh,
   which is still basically the Bourne shell.  You can't trust
   backslashes inside `...`, and you can't use "if !".  Also, as
   you've noted, grep -q doesn't work; I expect this explains
   many of the test failures.  One more thing: you can't use
   "$<" in regular Makefile rules; you gotta spell it out.  This
   stuff is all documented somewhere, I expect in the Autoconf
   manual.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I've installed changes to address
‘$<’ and backslash-in-backticks in build-aux/extract-help:

 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/rcs.git/commit/?h=p

Any other problems, let me know soon(ish); i plan to release
5.9.1 some time next week or so.

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