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

[Akim Demaille]

| The example in autoconf.texi isn't accurate.
|   address@hidden native]$ echo foo | /bin/awk '/foo|^bar/ { print }'
|   foo
|   address@hidden native]$ echo bar | /bin/awk '/foo|^bar/ { print }'
|   bar
|   address@hidden native]$ echo foo | /bin/awk '/^bar|foo/ { print }'
|   foo
|   address@hidden native]$ echo bar | /bin/awk '/^bar|foo/ { print }'
|   bar
| 
| But:
| 
|   address@hidden native]$ echo xfoo | /bin/awk '/foo|^bar/ { print }'

???

So is it behaving as if

        /foo|^bar/ == /^(foo|bar)/

???

Thanks!

| This means the "echo foo | $AWK '/foo|^bar$/'" test will spuriously
| succeed.
| 
| My second problem is that I have a tough time regenerating all the
| dependent files from the new autoconf.in / configure.in (there is no
| bootstrap script and I don't even want to try autoreconf).  Can you do
| this and send me a patch versus a pristine 2.50b tarball that
| includes the updated "configure" ?

Well, I don't understand why it didn't work, but

        http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.50c.tar.gz

(where I used echo xfoo instead of foo).