Re: _AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH bug (Was: Re: 4-gary-AC_PROG_GREP.patch)

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
| The empty result for `checking for grep that handles long lines'
| is the typo Maciej just reported.

Applied the relevant part of Alberts original patch.

| The egrep failure is a more subtle issue.
|
| The _AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH macro (quoted below) uses the
| `$ac_max' variable to record the last size that worked so far.
| Apparently `$ac_max' is not initialized because
| _AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH is meant to be called several times
| while checking for a tool.

Please take a look at 5-gary-FEATURE_TEST_LENGTH-max.patch (mailed separately
to autoconf-patches).

Cheers,
        Gary.
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