On Friday 04 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:52:25AM CET: > > * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created > > by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the > > test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error > > message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:". > > Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ... > > * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this. > > * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. > > > OK to apply the attached patch to a temporary bugfixing branch based > > off of commit v1.11-263-g6318add (in which the offending test was > > introduced), and merge into master? > > Okay, though in general it would be preferable to avoid such bugs in > tests/defs so we wouldn't have to remember them in the future. > Or maybe we could define a "maintainer-check" that looks at the testcases' names and complains about suspicious ones... I'll give it a shot unless someone beats me.
For the moment, I've pushed the patch as-is. Thanks, Stefano
