Re: `testsuite' output alignment

[Akim Demaille]

>>> "Noah" == Noah Misch <address@hidden> writes:

 > diff --exclude=Makefile.am -urp -X dontdiff ac-clean/lib/autotest/general.m4 
 > ac-help_quad/lib/autotest/general.m4
 > --- ac-clean/lib/autotest/general.m4 2004-12-14 22:30:02.000000000 -0500
 > +++ ac-help_quad/lib/autotest/general.m4     2004-12-15 22:52:36.000000000 
 > -0500
 > @@ -1048,8 +1048,8 @@ m4_divert_push([TESTS])dnl
 >    AT_ordinal ) @%:@ AT_ordinal. m4_defn([AT_line]): $1
 >      at_setup_line='m4_defn([AT_line])'
 >      at_desc='$1'
 > -    $at_quiet $ECHO_N "m4_format([[%3d: %-45s]],
 > -                   AT_ordinal, [$1])[]$ECHO_C"
 > +    $at_quiet $ECHO_N "m4_format([%3d: %-]m4_eval(47 - m4_qdelta([$1]))[s],
 > +                   AT_ordinal, [[$1]])[]$ECHO_C"
 >  m4_divert_push([TEST_SCRIPT])dnl
 >  ])

Noah, for your information (since you are cleaning Autoconf with
talent), some people (especially Marc Espie) try to ouster m4_format
out of Autoconf.  Because it is not implemented in their BSD M4.

My 0.00002 Euro cents.