Re: about the test 501 that fail...

2015-09-07 Thread Paul Eggert
christian fafard wrote: I tried your patch but unfortunately it doesn't work. It looks like you tried to apply that patch to Autoconf 2.69. It won't do the job there. You can try doing some software archaeology to figure out why, but it may be simpler to run bleeding-edge Autoconf instead.

Re: about the test 501 that fail...

2015-09-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake wrote: even in the C locale, libtool has switched from `' to '' quoting, so a regex looking for ASCII backtick as the leading quote character fails to match the new diagnostics. That regex looks for [`'] so it should work with the new libtool behavior in the C locale. Putting cu

Re: about the test 501 that fail...

2015-09-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/05/2015 08:57 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > christian fafard wrote: >> I suggest changing the regular expression to accept both a leading >> backtick and a leading single quote. >> >> \` become [\`'] > > That would require assuming a UTF-8 locale, or some locale compatible > with UTF-8. Alth

Re: about the test 501 that fail...

2015-09-05 Thread Paul Eggert
christian fafard wrote: I suggest changing the regular expression to accept both a leading backtick and a leading single quote. \` become [\`'] That would require assuming a UTF-8 locale, or some locale compatible with UTF-8. Although this is a reasonably safe assumption nowadays, it's