On 01/05/2012 07:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 01/05/2012 07:06 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: >> On 01/05/12 06:07, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> Which "sort of thing" exactly? I could find only one place which suffers >>> of the problem you've pointed out, i.e., the `recheck recheck-html' rules >>> in lib/am/check.am. Am I missing something? >> >> Sorry, that appears to have been a miscount on my part: >> I was counting some files that Automake generates for itself >> while building. In Automake source there are only two instances, >> which your patch caught: the 'recheck recheck-html' rule and >> the 'check-TESTS' rule (the latter is what actually triggered >> the problem with coreutils). >> > Wait, the `check-TESTS' rules didn't use any sed invocation, so it wouldn't > make > sense for it to trip for a sed failure ... What am I missing? > I will answer myself: I was missing the fact that such a sed invocation had been added to check-TESTS, *but in master only*. Anyway, the maint -> master merge will take care of everything.
Thanks, and sorry for the noise, Stefano