From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:58:44 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: maint: avoid a false positive syntax check
X-Git-Tag: v8.13~106
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24b3c8b160e44305359c121e88c731b0366ad210;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: avoid a false positive syntax check

* cfg.mk (sc_strftime_check): Skip the check when there
is no info to compare against.
Reported by Stefano Lattarini
---

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 6c8acaa553..8a0dc9f702 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -205,7 +205,11 @@ sc_strftime_check:
 	  { echo N;							\
 	    info libc date calendar format 2>/dev/null|grep '^    `%.'\'\
 	      | $(extract_char); } | sort > $@-info;			\
-	  diff -u $@-src $@-info || exit 1;				\
+	  if test $$(stat --format %s $@-info) != 2; then		\
+	    diff -u $@-src $@-info || exit 1;				\
+	  else								\
+	    echo '$(ME): skipping $@: libc info not installed' 1>&2;	\
+	  fi;								\
 	  rm -f $@-src $@-info;						\
 	fi