Re: "make check-TEST" lossage on FreeBSD make (+ untested patch)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:14:23PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> At the end of
> <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2004-05/msg00020.html>,
> Mark D. Baushke reports that an Automake-generated rule fails on
> FreeBSD "make", which uses "sh -e" on its subcommands.  I see several
> other places where similar problems might occur.  Here's a proposed
> (but completely untested, alas) patch for the problems I found.
>
> 2004-05-04  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * Makefile.am (fetch): Work even with FreeBSD "make", which
>       uses sh -e and thus errors-out if a simple-command fails.
>       * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Likewise.
>       * lib/am/ltlib.am (clean-%DIR%LTLIBRARIES): Likewise.
>       * lib/am/tags.am (TAGS): Likewise.

This looks good to me.  Could you install it on branch-1-8 too ?

Thanks a lot.