Have empty.uu explicitly be a uuencoding of /dev/null.

That way, uudecode will write the decoded output there, rather than to a
file named "empty" that gets left around.  That also means we don't need
to redirect the output of uudecode to /dev/null, so don't do that.

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index a1a693ad665d7eb25e95b1c361aebdc75be7e650..1b73a27b343e4c3dfa5abd1be11042e6a36fc4e1 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ distclean:
        rm -rf autom4te.cache
 
 check: tcpdump
-       uudecode <tests/empty.uu >/dev/null || (echo "No uudecode program found, not running tests"; echo "apt-get/rpm install sharutils?"; exit 1)
+       uudecode <tests/empty.uu || (echo "No uudecode program found, not running tests"; echo "apt-get/rpm install sharutils?"; exit 1)
        (cd tests && ./TESTrun.sh)
 
 tags: $(TAGFILES)

diff --git a/tests/empty.uu b/tests/empty.uu
index ad36ae9ae13af84a0b0ccbd5cff27457c4bbcc1b..17786d5d2d4b4aac4b603d45e3bd99076043de8a 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/empty.uu
+++ b/tests/empty.uu
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-begin 644 empty
+begin 666 /dev/null
 `
 end