changeset 12288:cbae19b6a9f8

gnulib-tool: correctly detect absence of m4 directories $m4dirs is incorrectly counting. In my particular case (correct value: 0, detected value: 1), this resulted in gnulib-tool silently exitting with no visible error (and no job done). * gnulib-tool: Avoid extra newline on data passed to wc -l. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
author Robert Millan <rmh.grub@aybabtu.com>
date Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:45:02 -0700
parents 0c467c7c0132
children e973be2fb39f
files ChangeLog gnulib-tool
diffstat 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-11-14  Robert Millan  <rmh.grub@aybabtu.com>  (tiny change)
+
+	gnulib-tool: correctly detect absence of m4 directories
+	* gnulib-tool: Avoid extra newline on data passed to wc -l.
+
 2009-11-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
 	maint.mk: Prohibit inclusion of "xalloc.h" without use.
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -4500,7 +4500,7 @@
           sedexpr2='s,^[^/]*$,.,'
           sedexpr3='s,/[^/]*$,,'
           m4dirs=`sed -n -e "$sedexpr1" aclocal.m4 | sed -e "$sedexpr2" -e "$sedexpr3" | LC_ALL=C sort -u`
-          m4dirs_count=`echo "$m4dirs" | wc -l`
+          m4dirs_count=`printf %s "$m4dirs" | wc -l`
         fi
       fi
       if test $m4dirs_count = 0; then