On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 12:27 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Diab, > > Thanks for the bug report! > > * Diab Jerius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:35:52AM > CEST: > > >Synopsis: make check XFAIL shell code may fail on Solaris due to > > >extraneous tabs > > > Solaris 5.8, /usr/ccs/bin/make > > >Description: > > If the list of tests expected to fail (XFAIL) contains elements with > > tabs immediately preceding or trailing them, Solaris make sometimes > > does not remove the tabs when it passes the list to the shell, causing > > the logic for the check-TESTS target to fail. I've attached a tarball > > containing the input Makefile.am and generated Makefile.in and > > Makefile files, as well as the output of "make -n check" exhibiting > > the retained tabs. The check-TESTS code assumes that the test name > > will be preceded and followed by spaces (*" $$tst "*); the presence of > > the tab causes the test to fail. > > This happens with GNU make as well, by design: `make' should not > interpret or change any white space in a macro, except that any leading > white space immedidately after the `=' is removed. >
Interesting. I didn't see a failure with GNU make, which implies that it did remove the tabs. I'll have to check this out further, alas. > Suggested patch below. OK to apply? The variable assignment is to work > around this bug (info Autoconf "Limitations of Builtins"): > I'll give it a try and get back to you. Thanks, Diab -- Diab Jerius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
