Re: AT_KEYWORDS failure: cmdline OR-combinations

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:54:22PM CEST:
> Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I apologize that I haven't published our results earlier.
> 
> No need to apologize!  It's low priority, surely, since nobody really
> needs /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.  Every Solaris implementation has nawk, and
> nawk will work.
> 
> Perhaps we ought to filter out Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/awk in our check
> for valid awk implementations, by using this test case.  If it has
> this bug, it's likely to have others.  Hardly anybody uses this Awk,
> so there's little surprise that it's buggy.  (But this is low priority
> too.)

I thought it was a feature of this macro that it does not require
AC_PROG_AWK but call plain `awk', and therefore implemented all these
nasty workarounds?

Cheers,
Ralf