Subject: bug#14760: GNU Automake 1.14 testsuite failures on -current NetBSD/amd64

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:50:47 +0100

tags 14760 + moreinfo
thanks

On 07/01/2013 04:05 PM, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Nicolas, sorry for the shameful delay.

> Just got 2 failures running Automake 1.14 testsuite on -current
> NetBSD/amd64.
> 
> [SNIP]
>
> FAIL: t/silent-custom
>
Does the patch below help with this failure?

(As for the other failure, I'll take a look later -- might be
few minutes, might be few days).

Thanks,
  Stefano

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>From ac0e09477ca1614892799c91c327fff0ba83ad19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <ac0e09477[email-masked]>
From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 11:37:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix a spurious failure on NetBSD-current

Reported in automake bug#14760.

* tests/silent-custom.sh: Be prepared to handle creative
quoting in the output of the shell run for the make recipes
when the shell traces are active ("set -x").

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
---
 t/silent-custom.sh | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/silent-custom.sh b/t/silent-custom.sh
index 7ce3ffc..b00e388 100644
--- a/t/silent-custom.sh
+++ b/t/silent-custom.sh
@@ -80,8 +80,18 @@ do_check ()
   else
     $FGREP 'GEN ' output && exit 1
     $FGREP 'cp ./foo.in foo' output
-    $FGREP "rm -f sub/0.h sub/1.h sub/2.h" output
-    $FGREP "generate-header --flags sub/0.h sub/1.h sub/2.h" output
+    # Be prepared to handle "creative quoting" in the shell traces.
+    # See automake bug#14760.
+    ok=false
+    for q in '' \' \"; do
+      files="${q}sub/0.h${q} ${q}sub/1.h${q} ${q}sub/2.h${q}"
+      $FGREP "rm -f $files" output || continue
+      $FGREP "generate-header --flags $files" output || continue
+      ok=:
+      break
+    done
+    $ok || exit 1
+    unset ok
   fi
 }

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