Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

[David Morgan]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "David" == David Morgan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> David> The problem is the expr replacement and the sed on ac_dir.
> 
> David> The expr parts returns '.' on stdout (correct) and 1 - which
> David> seems wrong.
> 
> So to summarize, the problem is that if you run this:
> 
> AC_INIT
> echo AC_SHELL_DIRNAME(foo)
> 
> you get `. . .' instead of just `.', right?
> 
> The first `.' is coming from `expr', which is right, but seems to be
> failing anyway.
> 
> And then you say that sed is responsible for the two other dots,
> right?  This is weird.  Where is it coming from?  Ouch.  In fact I can
> reproduce this extra dot too.
> 
> /tmp % echo "Xfoo" |                                             nostromo 
> 12:08
> pipe>     sed '/^X\(.*[^/]\)\/\/*[^/][^/]*\/*$/{ s//\1/p; q; }
> pipe quote>   /^X\(\/\/\)[^/].*/{ s//\1/p; q; }
> pipe quote>     /^X\(\/\/\)$/{ s//\1/p; q; }
> pipe quote>     /^X\(\/\).*/{ s//\1/p; q; }
> pipe quote>     s/.*/./p; q'
> .
> .
> 
> Arg! -n is missing, so since there is a `p', it's printed twice.
> 
> Paul, what do you prefer?  I chose not to add `-n' but to remove the
> `p', if you think there is a difference and you prefer the other
> solution, I'll adjust the code.
> 
> David, could you run this script?
> 
>   
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>    configureName: configure
>             Type: Plain Text (text/plain)

Ok,

The script results are:

.
1
====
.
0

Which is what I had seen.

At least it's not just me for the sed problem :)

So what next for this one?

Regards
 David