Add comment explaining recent patch.

* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: Explain choice
of * vs. ? globbing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3e728931930d56a96c6ef96c72198e6d2294c718..065a75bc4c6b5619263aa27afc695ae166c07a12 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-06-19  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       Add comment explaining recent patch.
+       * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: Explain choice
+       of * vs. ? globbing.
+
 2008-06-19  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINK): Do not warn when not

diff --git a/lib/autotest/general.m4 b/lib/autotest/general.m4
index 3c983fc94edad411170bb80af0298231823342f4..90fce9fb72de2c9bdeb6c9121d4166c961a319d9 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/autotest/general.m4
+++ b/lib/autotest/general.m4
@@ -1166,6 +1166,7 @@ done
 # Wrap up the test suite with summary statistics.
 cd "$at_helper_dir"
 
+# Use ?..???? when the list must remain sorted, the faster * otherwise.
 at_pass_list=`for f in */pass; do echo $f; done | sed '/\*/d; s,/pass,,'`
 at_skip_list=`for f in */skip; do echo $f; done | sed '/\*/d; s,/skip,,'`
 at_xfail_list=`for f in */xfail; do echo $f; done | sed '/\*/d; s,/xfail,,'`