Re: quoting fun

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Patrick,

* Patrick Welche wrote on Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:09:03PM CET:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 04:51:46PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Please try this patch:
> > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/5244/focus=5252>
> > I'll try to finish it tomorrow.
> 
> I forgot about that thread :-/
> - your patch makes all the tests pass
> - ignore my comment about the loss of double space: it seems to be from
>   setting $file in my test shell script - when running the autotest no
>   spaces are lost
> - one strange thing: I tried running the testsuite -v -d 122 on its own
>   in tests/testsuite.dir/122 after it passed with all the rest, and got

What *exactly* did you do?  This?
  cd tests/testsuite.dir/122
  ./run

If not, then how can I reproduce it?

> /torture.at:270: test -f "$file.in" || exit 77

There should be a path before the `/' here.

> /torture.at:271: ./config.status "--file=$file:$file.in"
> --- /dev/null   2008-02-02 17:02:05.000000000 +0000
> +++ 
> /usr/src/local/autoconf.git/tests/testsuite.dir/122/testsuite.dir/at-stderr 
> 2008-02-02 17:02:05.000000000 +0000
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +config.status: error: cannot find input file: file.in
> stdout:
> /torture.at:271: exit code was 1, expected 0
> 
> yet it had passed in the "make check" without a $ vapourising.

Thanks,
Ralf