[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Geng) wrote:
> when I'm doing make distcheck on the present git version it fails
> with the following message:
>
> ...
> diff authors-actual authors-dotdot && rm -f authors-actual authors-dotdot
> ...
> 58c58
> < ptx: Fran?ois Pinard
> ---
>> ptx: François Pinard
...
> It clearly has to do with non ansi characters in names. But what exactly
> is wrong?
Hi Michael,
That check expects --version output to contain names matching
exactly what's in the AUTHORS file. This is accomplished
via proper_name_utf8:
#define AUTHORS proper_name_utf8 ("F. Pinard", "Fran\xc3\xa7ois Pinard")
So I suspect it's your system.
It's worked fine for me for weeks.
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