Re: depcomp testing

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 07:28:14AM CET:
> >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
>
> The extra test look useful even without this point, so please go
> ahead and check them.

Thanks.  Applied with your comments addressed.

>  RW> +  sleep 1
> 
> Just use $sleep (see tests/defs.in).
> 
> make maintainer-check should probably warn about this, although I haven't run
> it for a while

It does warn.  I simply did not know maintainer-check.

> Let's write "$MAKE && exit 1" because that's what of the other test do, and
> I'm wary that some shell will return the $? of $MAKE if it fails, in turn
> causing "set -e" to abort the script.  Don't ask me which shell, but that's 
> why we have "else :; fi" all over the Makefiles.

I always thought that was because of the `sh -e -c "$cmd"' that some
make implementations used (see Autoconf portability section).

Cheers,
Ralf