Thanks, I had already found that independently, and I
fixed that by pushing the following:
tests: port AS_TR_SH and AS_TR_CPP test to Solaris 8 wc
* tests/m4sh.at (AS@&t@_TR_SH and AS@&t@_TR_CPP): Do not assume
that "wc -l" outputs only digits; on Solaris 8 it also outputs
blanks and POSIX allows this.
---
tests/m4sh.at | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tests/m4sh.at b/tests/m4sh.at
index 9456899..8e9d1fe 100644
--- a/tests/m4sh.at
+++ b/tests/m4sh.at
@@ -1559,9 +1559,10 @@ A_B_C_P__
dnl Check that of the last 6 macros, only 2 needed command substitution.
dnl This test abuses our knowledge of m4sh internals a bit; oh well.
-AT_CHECK([sed -n '/start here/,$ {
+AT_CHECK([tab=' ' # a single ASCII tab character
+sed -n '/start here/,$ {
/`.*`/p
-}' script | wc -l], [], [[2
+}' script | wc -l | sed "s/[[ $tab]]//g" ], [], [[2
]])
AT_CLEANUP
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1.7.6.5
