Re: branch-2-0 tests: linux-dietlibc

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:40:00AM CET:
> 
> > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > Any hints as to where I should start looking?
> >
> > Usually that means that either ECHO is screwed up and the reexec ends up
> > sending configure to stdout rather than doing fallback echo, or else 
> > there could be a bug in one of the $0 expansions getting done wrong, or
> > maybe a sed command is doing the wrong thing.
> 
> 
> Nope.  That's just what func_configure does: From defs.m4sh:
> 
> |     eval func_msg $SHELL "$my_testdir/configure" $my_args
> |     eval $SHELL "$my_testdir/configure" $my_args || \
> |       { func_msg "FAILED: Configuring in $my_testdir"
> |         ls -ltr $my_testdir
> |         eval $SHELL -vx "$my_testdir/configure" $my_args;
> |         exit $EXIT_FAILURE;
> |       }
> 
> The verbose output was added with 
> 
> | 2003-11-24  Gary V. Vaughan  <address@hidden>
> | 
> |         * tests/defs (func_configure): cdemo, demo and mdemo are shows
> |         signs of indeterminacy for some users.  Be more verbose during
> |         failure to help track down the cause.
> 
> Should we leave it in?  It confused the heck out of me at least.
> If we leave it in, I suggest adding some
>   $ECHO "re-running configure with verbose output"
> or such.

It certainly wasn't designed to confuse, so that is a bug!  However,  since
we are moving to a whole new testsuite, please feel free to make whatever
change you think most useful here.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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