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Re: Matching variable output with AT_CHECK
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Matching variable output with AT_CHECK |
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Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:58:18 -0600 |
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/21/2007 2:32 AM:
>> The problem is that the shell variable isn't expanded in the expected
>> output, so the check always fails.
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> Yes, the STDOUT and STDERR arguments to AT_CHECK are expected to be
> literal, no shell expansion is done on them.
Or use AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE, which runs shell expansions on the stdout and
stderr arguments. (Hmm, that isn't documented in the manual yet - it's
been there for some time, though).
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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