FYI, here's what I committed to work around the exit status bug.
Cheers,
Ralf
commit 249f9a38a8dfc2d03f556c06f9204df91bea2208
Author: Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat Nov 3 18:55:09 2007 +0100
* tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/package.m4): Work around bash
exit status bug.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f485163..9ba94b5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
2007-11-03 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ and Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/package.m4): Work around bash
+ exit status bug.
+
+2007-11-03 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Require version 2.60, for
AC_PROG_SED, AC_PROG_GREP.
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index 4c3ad1a..ed129fd 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ include ../lib/freeze.mk
## package.m4. ##
## ------------ ##
+# The `:;' works around a redirected compound command bash exit status bug.
$(srcdir)/package.m4: Makefile
+ :; \
{ \
echo '# Signature of the current package.'; \
echo 'm4_define([AT_PACKAGE_NAME], [$(PACKAGE_NAME)])'; \
