On 12/16/2011 03:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > +++ b/tests/defs.in > @@ -103,6 +103,17 @@ test -z "$AUTORECONF" && AUTORECONF="@am_AUTORECONF@" > test -z "$AUTOHEADER" && AUTOHEADER="@am_AUTOHEADER@" > test -z "$AUTOUPDATE" && AUTOUPDATE="@am_AUTOUPDATE@" > test -z "$MISSING" && MISSING=`pwd`/../lib/missing > + > +# This is an hack to seamlessly support the infamous "autoconf wrappers",
s/an hack/a hack/ (in English, when the 'h' is pronounced, you use 'a'; 'an' is only for silent 'h', such as 'an hour'). > +# that might dispatch different autoconf versions depending on the name > +# of the input files and/or the command-line options used. See: > +# <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-12/msg00039.html> > +# FIXME: in the long run, the better fix will be to convert our testsuite > +# to use `configure.ac' instead of `configure.in' as autoconf input. Agreed with this comment, since automake now requires new enough autoconf to always support configure.ac. > $(srcdir)/foobar.am: > -## Creative quoting to avoid spurious matches in the grepping > -## of Makefile.in, later. > - echo '#' 'foobar' 'was 'here' '#' > $@ > +## Use of escape sequences with printf instead of literal `#' characters > +## is to avoid issues with FreeBSD make. Creative quoting and spacing is > +## to avoid spurious matches in the grepping of Makefile.in, later. > + printf '\043 %s %s \043\n' foobar "was here" > $@ This is ASCII-centric; is there any way we can come up with a solution that also works on EBCDIC machines? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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