Re: libtool-2.4.2.418 released [alpha]

[Tim Rice]

Hi Gary and Tim,

On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

| Hi Tim,
| 
| > On 6 Nov 2013, at 11:20, Tim Mooney <address@hidden> wrote:
| >> The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.4.2.418.
| > 
| >> This is a preliminary alpha release to begin platform testing in
| >> preparation for the next stable release.
| > 
| > I built 2.4.2.418 on x86_64-pc-solaris2.11 (OpenIndiana 151a8) with
| > the Oracle Studio 12.3 toolchain.  There was one unexpected failure
| > in the new test suite:
| > 
| > 21: quote shell meta-characters in filenames        FAILED (libtool.at:120)
| 
| Yes, I'm seeing this failure on quite a few of my test architectures too, but
| haven't been able to get to the bottom of it. If you have any insight, I'd be
| very happy to hear about it.

Gary, in bug#15734 you sugested it was a problem with grep.
On my UnixWare box, I tested with a GNU grep first in the path and #21
did not fail. Now, which part is tripping up the system grep and what
to do about it, I do not know. ;-)

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