From cdfa3f0c76f733b34cae75a277ba621716b33f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:59:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] meson: catch programs which ignore arguments

Don't try to use <<<. It seems to not work properly with old bash
versions or something.
---
 tools/meson-check-help.sh | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/meson-check-help.sh b/tools/meson-check-help.sh
index a0e304ca9c8..efe7ed4e561 100755
--- a/tools/meson-check-help.sh
+++ b/tools/meson-check-help.sh
@@ -10,14 +10,20 @@ if "$1"  --help | grep -v 'default:' | grep -E -q '.{80}.'; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+# --help prints something. Also catches case where args are ignored.
+if ! "$1"  --help | grep -q .; then
+    echo "$(basename "$1") --help output is empty."
+    exit 2
+fi
+
 # no --help output to stdout
 if "$1" --help 2>&1 1>/dev/null | grep .; then
     echo "$(basename "$1") --help prints to stderr"
-    exit 2
+    exit 3
 fi
 
 # error output to stderr
 if ! "$1" --no-such-parameter 2>&1 1>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
     echo "$(basename "$1") with an unknown parameter does not print to stderr"
-    exit 3
+    exit 4
 fi