Re: about the test 501 that fail...

[Eric Blake]

On 09/05/2015 08:57 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> christian fafard wrote:
>> I suggest changing the regular expression to accept both a leading
>> backtick and a leading single quote.
>>
>> \`   become   [\`']
> 
> That would require assuming a UTF-8 locale, or some locale compatible
> with UTF-8.  Although this is a reasonably safe assumption nowadays,
> it's more conservative to run libtoolize in the C locale, so that we
> don't have to worry about locale encoding when doing the test.  So I
> installed the attached patch instead; please give it a try.

No, even in the C locale, libtool has switched from `' to '' quoting, so
a regex looking for ASCII backtick as the leading quote character fails
to match the new diagnostics.  I don't know if libtool is even
internationalized enough to output diagnostics in the current locale, or
if it always outputs in the C locale (after all, Autoconf, and therefore
the M4sugar framework maintained by autoconf and used by libtool, is not
localized yet). So I still think Christian's original suggestion of
broadening the regular expression is needed.

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