[cairo] Why does 'make check' always fail

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Angel Tsankov wrote:
>>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>> Angel Tsankov wrote:
>>>>> What might be the rason for 'make check' to fail with:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Be civil and replace it by Note please.
>>>>>     FAIL: check-doc-syntax.sh
>>>>>
>>>>> even when check-doc-syntax.sh does not contain the string 'NOTE'
>>>> Sounds like a weirdo version of GNU grep.  What kind of system is
>>>> this?  And what does "grep --version" say?
>>>>
>>> This is a custom-built system with grep 2.5.1a.
>> Hum.  You really need to debug the check-doc-syntax.sh file (the
>> paragraph at the very end) to see why it's failing.
>>
> Well, if check-doc-syntax.sh is run on itself it will always fail:  The last 
> paragraph searches for a string and fails if it finds the string.  However, 
> the search string is contained in this paragraph and that's whay 
> check-doc-syntax.sh finds the string and fails.  Right?

Why is it run on itself?  That's not what we do.

behdad

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