Re: Prevent spurious failures with ./testsuite -x

[Paul Eggert]

Noah Misch <address@hidden> writes:

> 2004-10-23  Noah Misch  <address@hidden>
>
>       * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (_AT_CHECK): Do not enable
>         shell tracing on a command that could contain multiple lines.
>       * doc/autoconf.text: Document that fact and its implications.
>       * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): New macro.
>       * tests/autotest.at (Multiline backquote command substitution,
>         Multiline parameter expansion, Literal multiline command,
>         Multiline parenthetical command substitution): Remove XFAIL.

Thanks for those patches.  I installed them, except that here:

> +        *$\(*\)*)          at_reason='a $(...) command substitution' ;;

I inserted a '\' before the first '$'.

Also, (this is in response to your earlier patches I think) I added
autoconf.in to bin/.cvsignore and wrapper.in tests/.cvsignore.

Thanks again.