Hi, Stefano Lattarini <[email protected]> writes:
> 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 Excellent! >> 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> Noted. Thanks, Ludo’.
