Subject: Re: bug#14891: GNU Automake 1.14 FAIL: 5

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:52:33 +0000

Hi Dennis.

On 07/21/2013 05:23 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Reference:
> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14891>
> 
> On 07/17/2013 01:47 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> FAIL: t/test-extensions.sh
>>
> Please try the patch below for this, and let me know if it
> fixes this spurious failure.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Stefano
> 
> ---- 8< ---- 8< ---- 8< --- 8< ---- 8< ---- 8< ---- 8< ---- 8< ----
> 
> From 9ac9b2ceef705596cdf77501ea2669f17d1f280e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> Message-Id: <9ac9b2cee[email-masked]>
> From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:15:38 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid use of intervals to capitalize letters
> 
> It was causing spurious failures with with Solaris 8 'tr'.
> See automake bug#14891.
> 
> * t/test-extensions.sh: Adjust.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  t/test-extensions.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/test-extensions.sh b/t/test-extensions.sh
> index 0700991..ca7c5ec 100644
> --- a/t/test-extensions.sh
> +++ b/t/test-extensions.sh
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $AUTOMAKE -a
>  grep -i 'log' Makefile.in # For debugging.
> 
>  for lc in $valid_extensions; do
> -  uc=$(echo $lc | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')
> +  uc=$(echo $lc | tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)
>    $FGREP "\$(${uc}_LOG_COMPILER)" Makefile.in
>    grep "^${uc}_LOG_COMPILE =" Makefile.in
>    grep "^\.${lc}\.log:" Makefile.in
> 
Ping?  Does this solve your problem with this test?

Stefano