On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 at 08:45:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> What I am getting out of that command for mips occasionally is "`ed"
> (without the double quotes but including the back-quote).

I can't help thinking that rather than parsing the binary, it would be
simpler to check that EDITOR_PROGRAM is defined the way you want it:

--- patch-2.7.1/debian/rules    2013-11-04 12:43:02.000000000 +0000
+++ patch/debian/rules  2014-08-06 09:28:56.798604137 +0100
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
        dh_testdir
        $(MAKE)
        dh_auto_test
-       # make sure we call ed as "ed"
-       [ "$$(strings -n 2 src/patch | grep -w 'ed$$')" = "ed" ]
+       # make sure we call ed as "ed", not "/bin/ed" or something
+       grep '#define  *EDITOR_PROGRAM  *"ed"' config.h
        touch build-stamp
 
 clean:

Regards,
    S


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