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Re: [Autotest] Prefixing commands launched by AT_CHECK
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Autotest] Prefixing commands launched by AT_CHECK |
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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:49:53 -0600 |
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According to Thomas Moulard on 4/12/2009 8:01 PM:
> However, I still have an issue with the other scenario (MinGW
> cross-compiling):
> in that case, my binaries are suffixed with '.exe'.
>
> Is is easy to make Autotest aware of EXEEXT, however AT_TESTED does not
> do what I want:
>
> atlocal.in:
> EXEEXT="@EXEEXT";
Missing a close @? Here, the "" are redundant since @EXEEXT@ will never
expand to multiple shell words.
> export EXEEXT;
>
> simple-test.at:
> # [...]
> AT_TESTED([simple-test$EXEEXT])
> Is there any way to work around this issue?
Unfortunately, AT_TESTED treats its arguments as literals. This complaint
has come up in the past, and the idea was to introduce AT_TESTED_NOESCAPE
that allows shell expansion rather than escaping the metacharacters, but
no one has written a patch.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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