Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.63] testsuite: 51 failed

[Bert Timmerman]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 06:18 -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Bert Timmerman on 2/23/2009 1:13 PM:
> > Hi,
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> Hello Bert,
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> >> | @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> >> | +./script: line 551: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
> >> | +./script: line 557: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> >> | ./m4sh.at:200: exit code was 2, expected 0
> >> 
> >> Looking at the generated script, I see that line 551 falls in:
> >> 
> >> | echo=`$as_echo_n '
> >> | \c'`
> >> 
> >> So it seems like your shell has a bug in its handling of `` that contains
> >> a ''-quoted newline.  We need to know more about this shell, to see
> >> whether this is something that autoconf needs to be aware of and avoid.
> > 
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> > 
> > I'm having bash-3.1-9.fc5.1 installed.
> > 
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the followup; that's an older version of bash, but no one else
> has reported this bug with that version, so I'm wondering what else might
> be the problem.  What does 'echo $BASH_VERSION' output (so we can
> determine the patch level)?  

3.1.17(1)-release

> Also, is /bin/sh a symlink to bash, or is it
> some other shell?  

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov  4  2006 /bin/sh -> bash

> Can you please also post the output of:
> 
> /bin/sh -vx tests/testsuite.dir/051/script
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Output attached as file: output.txt

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> Eric Blake             address@hidden

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

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