On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:15 PM Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > > The automake test t/txinfo-vtexi4.sh failed when localtime and UTC were > on different days, resulting in the GREPDATE for the @UPDATED@ string > not matching (among possible others). > > mdate-sh always uses TZ=UTC0. This tiny change makes the test do the > same thing. > > I wondered if there were other tests that might have the same problem, > e.g., if TZ would be better set in test-init.sh (although granted this > was the only one failing). However, install-sh-option-C.sh is the only > other test that was setting TZ, and I didn't see others invoking date, > either. So Jim and I figured just patching vtexi4 is reasonable. > > Unrelated but so trivial did not at all seem worth separating: the doc > in vtexi4.sh referred to itself when it didn't mean to. > > Any comments or suggestions before I attempt to push this? --thanks, karl.
Good one. Thank you for tracking that down. When I applied that, "git am FILE" warned about this: .git/rebase-apply/patch:14: trailing whitespace. So please amend that to remove the trailing space in NEWS.
