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Re: FYI: exits in the test suite


From: Pavel Roskin
Subject: Re: FYI: exits in the test suite
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:07:33 -0400 (EDT)

Hello, Akim!

> My other patches are waiting for your approval :)

I was already writing ChangeLog :-)

>       * acgeneral.m4 (AC_MSG_ERROR): When trapping an `exit N' some
>       shells, such as Zsh, don't set $? to N.  Hence run `(exit N); exit
>       N' instead of plain `exit N'.

Yes!!!
I can't wait to get home and test it on FreeBSD :-)

> -  exit m4_default([$2], 1); }])
> +  (exit m4_default([$2], 1))
> +  exit m4_default([$2], 1); }])

I'll add a paragraph to autoconf.texi to recommend using AC_MSG_ERROR
instead of exit.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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