Don't block use of 'cat' or 'wc' in "make check".

* Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Add "cat" and "wc" to the list
of programs that we can't blacklist.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e04cd106bbfea2d9fa744cee88a60ae13df0de6c..323cfe87622ea7002fbb1f796e4855b69d6915d1 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2007-11-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
+       Don't block use of 'cat' or 'wc' in "make check".
+       * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Add "cat" and "wc" to the list
+       of programs that we can't blacklist.
+
        Fix md5sum+sha*sum on sparc: regenerate files with latest autoconf.
        * configure et al: Regenerate with very latest version of autoconf
        (v2.61a-312-gb524b0f), to fix md5sum and sha*sum miscompilation

diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
index 5671f292a1aa191f61c09d0561a4dcbd7cc97974..c8d4fec8d55aef17aca7d4973b9581ef34b6e883 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ my-distcheck: $(local-check) $(release_archive_dir)/$(prev-tgz)
          && for i in $(built_programs); do             \
               case $$i in                              \
                 rm|expr|basename|echo|sort|ls|tr);;    \
-                mv|dirname);;                          \
+                cat|dirname|mv|wc);;                   \
                 *) ln $(bin)/loser $(bin)/$$i;;        \
               esac;                                    \
             done                                       \