* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 12:04:11AM CEST: > At Sunday 06 September 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > info Autoconf "File Descriptors" > > > > describes this issue and a possible workaround. Wanna give it a > > try? > > > Well, in fact I thought of a possible workaround (by means of a proper > new shell function defined in `tests/defs.in', and loosely inspired to > AUTOMAKE_run()), but it would inevitably involve modifying the failing > test scripts, and probably extending the file `tests/README' to explain > how to do stderr redirection avoiding the described zsh bug. > if you think that it's worth having support for zsh4 in the automake > testsuite, I can give it a try,
Yes, that sounds like a good idea. It is ok to modify existing tests, as long as they still test what they used to before. Thanks, Ralf
