Re: usage error while running libtool testsuite

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bob!

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
> 
>>> usage: dirname path
>>> PASS: link-2.test
>>> usage: dirname path
>>>
>>> This message does not appear under Solaris 9.  The message did not
>>> appear a month (or so) ago.
>>
>>
>> I can't find any call to dirname outside of the configure scripts in
>> tests, and they are protected: (dirname $foo) >/dev/null 2>&1 && blah.
>>
>> Can you get a trace on where the usage message is coming from?
> 
> 
> Oddly, after doing a 'cvs update' the error message is not longer
> emitted while running the tests under FreeBSD.

Thanks for chasing.

Odd, but I guess the main thing is that it is working now :-)  It also
prompted me to put the shellology preamble at the start of test/defs, so
something worthwhile came of the effort too.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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