Re: Windows Line Endings

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On 6 Oct 2012, at 14:05, "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> On 6 Oct 2012, at 06:20, Peter Rosin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> And lastly libtool.at. It is only \' that is a problem. If I take
>> that char out of the backslashified list, the test is ok.
>> Another data point is that if I replace the grep on line 110 like
>> this:
>> -LT_AT_CHECK([$EGREP 
>> "$mode:.*$match_preflag\"?$flag\\\\\\$mchar:test\\\\\\$mchar\"? " stdout], 
>> [0], [ignore])
>> +LT_AT_CHECK([$EGREP 
>> "$mode:.*$match_preflag\"?$flag\\\\$mchar:test\\\\$mchar\"? " stdout], [0], 
>> [ignore])
>> it is ok for \" and \', but not for \$ and \\.
> 
> Actually the \\$ is my mistake, since the point of using LT_AT_CHECK
> rather than straight AT_CHECK is to echo the expanded output to the
> testsuite.log before executing the test, and escaping the $ like that
> defeats the expansion.
> 
>> Looking at LT_ESCAPE in testsuite.at (which is expanded as part of
>> LT_AT_CHECK), it seems to handle \"` specially, but not $.
> 
> Interesting.  Then it looks like it is the echo expansion in LT_AT_CHECK
> that is tripping Windows $SHELL, so moving to straight AT_CHECK will
> remove that problem...
> 
>> My $EGREP is GNU grep 2.6.3 on Cygwin, and GNU grep 2.5.4 on MinGW.
>> 
>> I don't have enough quotefuu to fix this.
> 
> Changing all LT_AT_CHECK to AT_CHECK for the tests formerly in quote.test
> and removing the extra \\ before $ doesn't regress on Mac, where make
> distcheck still succeeds.

Scratch that, on closer inspection there are a couple of thinkos and
portable quoting errors in the original port of quote.test to Autotest.

> I'll push if you can confirm that it fixes the test on Windows for you,
> otherwise we'll have to wait until I have a Windows test environment to
> figure out what I'm missing.

I've pushed what I think is the correct fix.  Let me know if you still
have issues with the test.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)