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Re: Matching variable output with AT_CHECK
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Braden McDaniel |
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Re: Matching variable output with AT_CHECK |
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Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:38:09 -0400 |
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 08:58 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/21/2007 2:32 AM:
> >> The problem is that the shell variable isn't expanded in the expected
> >> output, so the check always fails.
> >
> > Yes, the STDOUT and STDERR arguments to AT_CHECK are expected to be
> > literal, no shell expansion is done on them.
>
> Or use AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE, which runs shell expansions on the stdout and
> stderr arguments. (Hmm, that isn't documented in the manual yet - it's
> been there for some time, though).
Aha, very useful. Thanks!
I think a similar variant of AT_DATA would also be useful.
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