From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:45:28 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
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test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting

* tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fa53707fe..4563585da 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-02-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+	    Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+	test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
+	* tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
+
 2011-02-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
 	python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
diff --git a/tests/defs.in b/tests/defs.in
index eb92caa84..ffe21e1de 100644
--- a/tests/defs.in
+++ b/tests/defs.in
@@ -440,6 +440,24 @@ AUTOMAKE_fails ()
   AUTOMAKE_run 1 ${1+"$@"}
 }
 
+# unindent [input files...]
+# -------------------------
+# Remove the "proper" amount of leading whitespace from the given files,
+# and output the result on stdout.  That amount is determined by looking
+# at the leading whitespace of the first non-blank line in the input
+# files.  If no input file is specified, standard input is implied.
+unindent ()
+{
+  cat ${1+"$@"} > deindent.tmp
+  indentation=`sed <deindent.tmp -n "
+    /[^ $tab].*$/{
+      s///p
+      q
+  }"`
+  sed "s/^$indentation//" deindent.tmp
+  rm -f deindent.tmp
+}
+
 # Turn on shell traces.
 set -x