Hi Andreas,
> On Feb 18 2019, Rainer Orth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/libgo/testsuite/gotest b/libgo/testsuite/gotest
>> --- a/libgo/testsuite/gotest
>> +++ b/libgo/testsuite/gotest
>> @@ -627,13 +627,13 @@ symtogo() {
>> -e 's/[ ]*$/\\n/g' |
>> tr -d '\n')"
>> # Remove leading and trailing \n.
>> - output="$(echo "$output" | sed -e 's/^\(\\n\)*//' -e
>> 's/\(\\n\)*$//')"
>> + output="$(printf %s "$output" | sed -e 's/^\(\\n\)*//' -e
>> 's/\(\\n\)*$//')"
>
> printf %s does not print a trailing newline, and some implementations of
> sed cannot cope with incomplete lines.
configure uses
as_echo='printf %s\n'
as_echo_n='printf %s'
here. To avoid duplicating all that logic to determine a suitable echo,
it would be good to be able to reuse it.
My patch is clearly just a hack to get rid of those failures.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
