Re: Directs makeinfo and texi2html output to logfiles (issue 5645046)

[Phil Holmes]

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> I'm not sure why the run-and-check.sh script needs to be so complicated.

Nor me.  But I did a lot of experimentation to get it to work.  I think all 
the extra redirection and the exec stuff is required because you're running 
a command inside a shell script, and so simply trying:

command 2>&1

doesn't work.  There's lots of stuff on the net about needing to use exec.

If you don't use eval, the shell tries to run the first "command" it sees, 
which is "DEPTH=$(depth)/../" and this fails as a command.  So the way round 
that was to use eval.

As you know, I'm no unix script expert.  But I'd be surprised if there was a 
simpler way to actually make this work.


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Phil Holmes