Re: 'make check' test 6 fail, native hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00, autoconf 2.50 and autoconf 2.50b

[Akim Demaille]

| Here's some more /bin/awk output:
|   address@hidden tmp]$ echo 'FORBIDDEN' | /bin/awk '/^FORBIDDEN$|_AC_/ { 
print  "MATCH: " $0}'
|   MATCH: FORBIDDEN
|   address@hidden tmp]$ echo '^FORBIDDEN' | /bin/awk '/^FORBIDDEN$|_AC_/ { 
prin t "MATCH: " $0}'
|   address@hidden tmp]$ echo 'FORBIDDEN$' | /bin/awk '/^FORBIDDEN$|_AC_/ { 
prin t "MATCH: " $0}'
|   address@hidden tmp]$ echo '^FORBIDDEN$' | /bin/awk '/^FORBIDDEN$|_AC_/ { 
pri nt "MATCH: " $0}'
|   address@hidden tmp]$ echo 'FORBIDDEN' | /bin/awk '/_AC_|^FORBIDDEN$/ { 
print  "MATCH: " $0}'
|   MATCH: FORBIDDEN
|   address@hidden tmp]$ echo '^FORBIDDEN' | /bin/awk '/_AC_|^FORBIDDEN$/ { 
prin t "MATCH: " $0}'
|   address@hidden tmp]$ echo 'FORBIDDEN$' | /bin/awk '/_AC_|^FORBIDDEN$/ { 
prin t "MATCH: " $0}'
|   address@hidden tmp]$ echo '^FORBIDDEN$' | /bin/awk '/_AC_|^FORBIDDEN$/ { 
pri nt "MATCH: " $0}'
| 
| > Is it the actual AWK that was chosen by Autoconf's own configure?
| 
|   address@hidden autoconf-2.50b]$ grep AWK= autoconf
|   : ${AWK=awk}
| 
|   address@hidden autoconf-2.50b]$ grep awk X-configure.log 
|   checking for mawk... no
|   checking for gawk... no
|   checking for nawk... no
|   checking for awk... awk

Thanks a lot!

Last question: you seemed to have Gawk on your system.  How come it
has not been discovered?