man8.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.

* tests/man8.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e39dc113baaf58f40031eec43d6c086c96864fdb..afb60f4194e638faccf86e497970070e6959bcba 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       man8.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
+       * tests/man8.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
+       commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.
+
 2010-11-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
        Improve and extend tests on man pages support.

diff --git a/tests/man8.test b/tests/man8.test
index 2ef52b4d9b3b7372dc80e4891db76ee80e2b66e3..377eeff288778160aca94d39d3868af496f87ed3 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/man8.test
+++ b/tests/man8.test
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ set -e
 cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
 dist_man_MANS = foo.1
 foo.1:
-       rm -f $(srcdir)/$@  # fails if $(srcdir) is unwritable
+## this 'rm' command will fail if $(srcdir) is unwritable
+       rm -f $(srcdir)/$@
        : > $(srcdir)/$@
 END