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Re: Two testsuite failure in CVS autoconf
From: |
Nicolas Joly |
Subject: |
Re: Two testsuite failure in CVS autoconf |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Feb 2001 23:39:57 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.2.4i |
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:28:45PM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:08:39PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > But i made some modifications to test my patch :
> > >
> > > if AC_TRY_COMMAND([(echo "The Cat in the Hat";
> >
> > I understand that the semicolon fixes the problem!
> >
> > > echo "The Hat in the Cat" >&2)
> > > | grep ^The\ Cat\ in\ the\ Hat\$ >/dev/null]); then
> > > true
> > > else
> > > AC_MSG_ERROR([Didn't see the Cat in the Hat!])
> > > fi
> >
> > I believe, it's fair to require semicolons inside AC_TRY_COMMAND. It's not
> > a real limitation.
> >
> > The patch goes to autoconf-patches. Thank you!
>
> Just a small thing i forgot. The circumflex in grep command must be
> quoted too, as it is interpreted by `sh' under tru64 v5.1 as a pipeline
> start. Grrrr ...
s/start/separator/
> address@hidden [~]> man 1p sh
> [...]
> A pipeline is a sequence of one or more commands separated by a | (vertical
> bar) or, for historical compatibility, by a ^ (circumflex). In a pipeline,
> the standard output of each command becomes the standard input of the next
> [...]
Here is some more, always from man sh :
[...]
The following characters have a special meaning to the shell and cause ter-
mination of a word unless quoted:
; & ( ) | ^ < > <newline> <space> <tab>
[...]
--
Nicolas Joly
Informatique Scientifique
Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- Re: Two testsuite failure in CVS autoconf, (continued)