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Re: [PATCH] tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:42:30 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04)

Hi Stefano,

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:52:25AM CET:
> * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
> by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
> test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
> message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
> Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
> * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
> * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

> OK to apply the attached patch to a temporary bugfixing branch based
> off of  commit v1.11-263-g6318add (in which the offending test was
> introduced), and merge into master?

Okay, though in general it would be preferable to avoid such bugs in
tests/defs so we wouldn't have to remember them in the future.

Thanks,
Ralf



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