#! /bin/sh # Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # Make sure Automake preserves escaped comments in the output. . test-init.sh cat >> configure.ac <<'END' AC_OUTPUT END cat > Makefile.am << 'END' # This value should be preserved. var = -DVAL='"\#xxx\#"' # this should be stripped var += -DX=1 # this should be kept END $ACLOCAL # This should fail due to -Werror, as in: # automake-1.16: warnings are treated as errors # Makefile.am:2: warning: escaping \# comment markers is not portable AUTOMAKE_fails grep 'escaping.*comment markers.*portable' stderr # This should pass though. $AUTOMAKE -Wno-portability # For debugging. grep ^var Makefile.in # The full flag should be retained. grep '^var.*\\#xxx\\#.*DX=1' Makefile.in # Only the 2nd comment should be retained. grep '^var.*stripped' Makefile.in && exit 1 || : grep '^var.*should be kept' Makefile.in