-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Stepan Kasal on 9/29/2006 7:48 AM: > > Why both of them have to be updated? There are far more consumers > of Autoconf than of Autotest. I suggest to remove the limitation > from AT_CHECK documentation only. Ultrix is rare these days, and > people willing to run the generated testsuite there will have to use > a working shell. > > What about the following patch?
> 2006-09-29 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Remove the > limitation that the first parameter of AT_CHECK cannot > contain redirection. > * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4): Fix for cases when the past > parameter is `stderr' or `experr'. I like the thought, but we would also need to update the comments in lib/autotest/general.m4, and perhaps add a warning in the manual that autotest will not work with Ultrix. Or maybe it is time to update our shell selection logic to make sure that the shell supports double redirection along with all the other features we require, and filter out any shell that behaves as poorly as Ultrix (but did Ultrix come with any alternate shell, or would we pounding the last nail in the coffin of that museum system?). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFHnP884KuGfSFAYARAlltAKCkX4arV8a/sVQIaaJshEW7EhkwzQCgy3mR Bs0cYBmZa0A6pJklRcMUE3o= =BGlC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
