Re: m4-1.4.10 breaking autoconf?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Jul 22, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Hi Gary,

Hi Eric!

> > On Jul 22, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > This is the patch, I'm still working on a testsuite addition:
> >
> > This bug seems to be present in HEAD too.  If so, can you please  
> > commit the
> > patch there too?
>
> Done.

Excellent!  Thank you :-)

>   For now, I'm giving up on a test on the branch - the only way to
> reliably test it is to create an expected output file of at least  
> 512k,
> which the testsuite mechanism on the branch is not really equipped  
> to do.
>  I suppose we could backport the autotest framework to the branch, but
> that also involves work.  So for now, the only test of this on the  
> branch
> is whether m4 can autoconf itself.

I'm amazed at how much effort you've put into the branch already.  I was
just letting it tick over and fix reported bugs so that I could work on
HEAD... :-)

>   But for head, here's the patch,
> including the testsuite addition (have I mentioned how much I like  
> autotest?).

Autotest has revolutionised libtool testing too.  Of course, there's  
nothing
to stop you running the HEAD testsuite on the branch binary like we  
sometimes
do with libtool...

Cheers,
        Gary
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