Re: coreutils tests/Makefile.am assumes "make -C"

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> By the way, why do you prefer not to use tr's -s option?
>> It's also used in the check-README rule just below.
>
> Minimalism.  It isn't necessary here, as the input is guaranteed to
> not have adjacent spaces.  Having it makes the code a bit more
> confusing.

Ahh.. of course.

I've applied your patch, which also makes the rule use `tr' rather than
`../src/tr'.  I assume that anyone who cares enough to build and run
`make check' will also have reasonably modern tools in their PATH
(including a version of tr that accepts the `\n' syntax).