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Re: CVS autoconf testsuite failure on Tru64 unix
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: CVS autoconf testsuite failure on Tru64 unix |
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Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:19:38 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Noah Misch <address@hidden> writes:
> Now wait! Only two Autoconf tests use constructs that look like
> `${...}', and only one of those actually expands the parameter; the
> other is single-quoted and yields the syntax error that began this
> discussion. It would not be harmful to disable shell tracing for
> all such tests. Yes, that will be _so_ much cleaner. I'll post a
> patch separately.
Thanks. Also, thanks for explaining the issue about testsuite -x; I
understand things much better now, at least at the top level. Perhaps
that explanation should be put into a comment, somewhere in your new
patch?