Re: autotest buglet/AIX awk limitation

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stepan,

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:48:15PM CEST:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:55:44AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > However, this patch unfortunately does not fix it:
> 
> my guess is that the testsuite script wasn't updated properly.

It was.  It's not possible to miss this, as it takes more than a minute on this
machine to update `testsuite'.

> The brute force fix is to rm tests/testsuite and try again.

| $ sed -n '/awk/,/exit/p' ./testsuite
|     awk 'BEGIN {
|            for (n = split("'"$at_groups"'", a); n; n--) selected[a[n]] = 1
|            FS = ";"
|          }
|          {
|            if (selected[$ 1]) {
|              printf " %3d: %-18s %s\n", $ 1, $ 2, $ 3
|              if ($ 4) printf "      %s\n", $ 4
|            }
|          }'
|   exit 0
| $ ./testsuite --list
| GNU Autoconf 2.59c test suite test groups:
| 
|  NUM: FILE-NAME:LINE     TEST-GROUP-NAME
|       KEYWORDS
| 
|  awk: The string or regular expression beginning with
|         the characters " banner-1 " cannot contain more than 399 bytes.
*snip*

Also note the different error message (quoted in my last messages).

For /this/ system, the use of AC_PROG_AWK would help.  For another
AIX-5.2 system I tested, it would not (as there is no gawk installed
there).

Regards,
Ralf