bug#8969: improve synchronization between examples in the manual and test cases

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Wednesday 06 July 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:32:56AM CEST:
> > Oops, sorry.  Fixed by the attached patch.  OK for maint?  I'll wait
> > the customary 72 hours before pushing.
> 
> Thanks.  OK, but please remove all the comments about tar unportability
> in the tests.  It's so obvious.  ;-)
>
OK done.

> (and there are probably a dozen other places in the Automake source tree
> that you'd have to put the comment at as well, for any amount of
> consistency.  I think having one comment, the one that already exists in
> lib/am/distdir.am, is fully sufficient.)
> 
> > > I'm ok with fixing the manual also, although it's
> > > usually clear for people still having to use those vendor tars (and
> > > inconvenient for the rest).
> > >
> > Yes, I'd say we leave the examples in manual untouched.  Agreed?
> 
> OK.
> 
> > Subject: [PATCH] tests: portability fixes in tests on amhello examples
> > 
> > * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Don't use "tar xzf too.tag.gz" to
> > extract a gzip-compressed tarball, that's unportable to some
> > tar implementations; use the "gzip -dc fo.tar.gz | tar xf -"
> > idiom instead.
> > * tests/amhello-cflags.test: Likewise.
> > * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ralf
> 
Pushed now.

Thanks,
  Stefano