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Re: Two testsuite failure in CVS autoconf
From: |
Nicolas Joly |
Subject: |
Re: Two testsuite failure in CVS autoconf |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:16:05 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.2.4i |
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:49:08PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hi, Nicolas!
>
> > For AC_TRY_* test, there is a small typo. Here follow a patch :
>
> > - | grep ^The\ Cat\ in\ The\ Hat\$ >/dev/null]); then
> > + | grep ^The\ Cat\ in\ the\ Hat\$ >/dev/null]); then
> > # Cool!
> > else
>
> Are you sure this patch is sufficient for you? Have you tested it?
It not sufficient. I just wanted to correct the typo.
> There are at least two problems here.
>
> 1) There are no commands between "then" and "else". bash-1.14.7 doesn't
> accept this code.
I saw it with sh under Tru64 unix v5.1 too.
> 2) Support for multiline AC_TRY_COMMAND seems to be broken, as the file
> BUGS says. It is indeed broken on my RedHat 6.2.
Same here.
But i made some modifications to test my patch :
if AC_TRY_COMMAND([(echo "The Cat in the Hat";
echo "The Hat in the Cat" >&2)
| grep ^The\ Cat\ in\ the\ Hat\$ >/dev/null]); then
true
else
AC_MSG_ERROR([Didn't see the Cat in the Hat!])
fi
--
Nicolas Joly
Informatique Scientifique
Institut Pasteur, Paris.