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-rw-r--r--build-aux/check.mk2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 439921354..d9a05e661 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2007-10-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+ Don't try to colorize a dumb terminal.
+ * build-aux/check.mk (am__tty_colors): Skip colors if $TERM is "dumb".
+ Thanks to Bob Proulx.
+
Remove gnulib's printf-posix module, for now.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): It caused too many test failures.
diff --git a/build-aux/check.mk b/build-aux/check.mk
index 8e43147a3..862b3e52b 100644
--- a/build-aux/check.mk
+++ b/build-aux/check.mk
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ END { \
# this fails; a conservative approach. Of course do not redirect
# stdout here, just stderr...
am__tty_colors = \
-if test -t 1 2>/dev/null && test -n "$$TERM"; then \
+if test -t 1 2>/dev/null && test -n "$$TERM" && test "$$TERM" != dumb; then \
red=''; \
grn=''; \
lgn=''; \