With today's CVS (so with AT_CHECK_AT_TITLE 2006-11-08 in ChangeLog) on NetBSD (so without GNU sed) I get 76: Macro with backslash in a test title UNEXPECTED PASS ./autotest.at:295: $CONFIG_SHELL ./micro-suite | sed -n 's/[^:]*: \(.*[^ ]\)[ ]*ok.*/\1/p' Not enabling shell tracing (command contains an embedded newline) + set +x ./autotest.at:295: $CONFIG_SHELL ./micro-suite -l | sed -n 's/.*[0-9]: [^ ][^ ]*[ ][ ]*\(.*[^ ]\)[ ]*/\1/p' Not enabling shell tracing (command contains an embedded newline) + set +x ./autotest.at:295: sed -n 's/[^.]*\. \(.*\) ([^)]*): ok.*/\1/p' micro-suite.log + sed -n s/[^.]*\. \(.*\) ([^)]*): ok.*/\1/p micro-suite.log + set +x 76. autotest.at:295: UNEXPECTED PASS % micro-suite ## --------------------------------------------------- ## ## GNU Nonsense 1.0 test suite: artificial test suite. ## ## --------------------------------------------------- ## 1: A \ in my name ok ## ------------- ## ## Test results. ## ## ------------- ## 1 test was successful. which seems to come from at_desc="A \\ in my name" What is meant to fail? Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf