At Monday 05 July 2010, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I noticed on NixOS GNU/Linux that silent*.test would randomly fail (see > <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/477516>.) The reason is that these tests > would fail if “mv” is found in the standard output of ‘make’, but the > random build directory names used by Nix could very well contain this > string. Thanks for the report. However, this problem has already been fixed in the master and maint branches of the Automake git repository -- see: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/tests/silent5.test> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/tests/silent5.test?h=maint> the relevant line being: $EGREP '(mv|ylwrap) ' stdout && Exit 1
> The patch below makes the tests slightly more robust in this respect. > I’m not sure if this syntax for word boundaries is portable across > ‘grep’ implementations, though. According to the autoconf manual, it's not; see the entry for "grep" at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Limitations-of-Usual-Tools> Regards, Stefano
