Re: Matching variable output with AT_CHECK

[Braden McDaniel]

On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 08:58 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/21/2007 2:32 AM:
> >> The problem is that the shell variable isn't expanded in the expected
> >> output, so the check always fails.
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> > Yes, the STDOUT and STDERR arguments to AT_CHECK are expected to be
> > literal, no shell expansion is done on them.
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> Or use AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE, which runs shell expansions on the stdout and
> stderr arguments.  (Hmm, that isn't documented in the manual yet - it's
> been there for some time, though).

Aha, very useful. Thanks!

I think a similar variant of AT_DATA would also be useful.

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