Jim Meyering wrote:
it's interpreting [--nocompress] as a range: "-" through "n", plus the other characters, ocmpres. "k" falls in the --n range.
Anyhow, here's the fix:
Here's a more complete fix, since there was another similar echo stmt that required quotes:
From 4c84ba453fe9a4b6903885f93b92f32135dc53d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:33:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] build: fix test for --nocompress option
* configure.ac: Fix underquoting-with-bash bug that would cause the test for --nocompress in the output of febootstrap-to-initramfs' usage string always to fail. --- configure.ac | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 0ae20be..20edc70 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ if test "x$enable_supermin" = "xyes"; then AC_MSG_CHECKING([for --files support in $FEBOOTSTRAP_TO_INITRAMFS]) out=`$FEBOOTSTRAP_TO_INITRAMFS 2>&1 ||:` echo "febootstrap_to_initramfs test command output: $out" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD - if ! echo $out | grep -sq -- "--files" ; then + if ! echo "$out" | grep -sq -e --files ; then AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) AC_MSG_FAILURE( [febootstrap-to-initramfs does not support the --files option. @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ version of febootstrap. AC_MSG_CHECKING([for --nocompress support in $FEBOOTSTRAP_TO_INITRAMFS]) out=`$FEBOOTSTRAP_TO_INITRAMFS 2>&1 ||:` echo "febootstrap_to_initramfs test command output: $out" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD - if ! echo $out | grep -sq -- "--nocompress" ; then + if ! echo "$out" | grep -sq -e --nocompress ; then AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) AC_MSG_FAILURE( [febootstrap-to-initramfs does not support the --nocompress option. -- 1.6.3.3