Bug 12757

Summary: autogen.sh fails on a text-mode Linux console.
Product: cairo Reporter: Chris Heath <chris>
Component: generalAssignee: Carl Worth <cworth>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: cairo-bugs mailing list <cairo-bugs>
Severity: minor    
Priority: low CC: chris
Version: 1.5.1   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Chris Heath 2007-10-09 16:38:19 UTC 
On terminals that don't support boldface, autogen.sh fails.

I do have tput installed, but it returns a nonzero value on such a terminal, which causes autogen.sh to stop.

Patch to fix it:

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 73455ef..4253a91 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ esac
 
 
 # some terminal codes ...
-boldface="`tput bold 2>/dev/null`"
-normal="`tput sgr0 2>/dev/null`"
+boldface="`tput bold 2>/dev/null || true`"
+normal="`tput sgr0 2>/dev/null || true`"
 printbold() {
     echo $ECHO_N "$boldface"
     echo "$@"
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-10-15 14:32:26 UTC 
Committed.  Thanks.

commit 189feaf352f59b0a049202552024578715ef8cc7
Author: Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:31:50 2007 -0400

    [autogen.sh] Tolerate tput failure (#12757)

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