diff gnulib-tool @ 12288:cbae19b6a9f8

gnulib-tool: correctly detect absence of m4 directories $m4dirs is incorrectly counting. In my particular case (correct value: 0, detected value: 1), this resulted in gnulib-tool silently exitting with no visible error (and no job done). * gnulib-tool: Avoid extra newline on data passed to wc -l. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
author Robert Millan <rmh.grub@aybabtu.com>
date Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:45:02 -0700
parents b56c1bd3de46
children b8c65d432a3e
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--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -4500,7 +4500,7 @@
           sedexpr2='s,^[^/]*$,.,'
           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