Hello Daniel,
thanks for the bug report.
* Daniel Richman wrote on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 04:01:42AM CET:
> I just compiled Autoconf 2.65 on Mac OS X 10.5 w/ Apple's gcc-4.2.1.
> All tests are fine except #217 ("Substitute and define special
> characters") which fails. I am attaching the testsuite.log for that
> test.
We fixed something in the area with commit v2.65-35-ga2889ee, but I'm
not totally sure that that was it. If you are prepared to try out the
git version of Autoconf, you could confirm that the issue is fixed with
the current master, and thus will be fixed in the next release.
Thanks,
Ralf
> 217. torture.at:837: testing ...
[...]
> ./torture.at:919: cmp allowed-chars Zardoz
> --- /dev/null 2010-03-19 19:31:47.000000000 -0700
> +++
> /Users/danielr/Downloads/build/autoconf-2.65/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/217/stdout
> 2010-03-19 19:31:47.000000000 -0700
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +allowed-chars Zardoz differ: char 168, line 2
> ./torture.at:919: exit code was 1, expected 0
