Re: quoting fun

[Patrick Welche]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:51:42PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Patrick Welche wrote on Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:09:03PM CET:
> > - one strange thing: I tried running the testsuite -v -d 122 on its own
> >   in tests/testsuite.dir/122 after it passed with all the rest, and got
> 
> What *exactly* did you do?  This?
>   cd tests/testsuite.dir/122
>   ./run
> 
> If not, then how can I reproduce it?

cd tests/testsuite.dir/122
../../testsuite -v -d 122

Not the best way then...

> > /torture.at:270: test -f "$file.in" || exit 77
> 
> There should be a path before the `/' here.
> 
> > /torture.at:271: ./config.status "--file=$file:$file.in"
> > --- /dev/null   2008-02-02 17:02:05.000000000 +0000
> > +++ 
> > /usr/src/local/autoconf.git/tests/testsuite.dir/122/testsuite.dir/at-stderr 
> > 2008-02-02 17:02:05.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> > +config.status: error: cannot find input file: file.in
> > stdout:
> > /torture.at:271: exit code was 1, expected 0

and of course now after several checks, everything in autoconf passes (with
your patch) and I can't reproduce the oddity.

Cheers,

Patrick