Re: testing Autoconf with awk

[Tim Rice]

Hi Ralf,

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hello Tim,
> 
> In http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-05/msg00077.html
> you warned that changing config.status to use awk for substitutions
> could easily break on the systems you have access to.
> 
> We made the change now in the CVS version of Autoconf.  Even more, we
> also use some more potentially large here documents.  Would you be
> willing to test it?  Grab it with
[snip]
> It's probably sufficient if you run these tests for now:
>   make check \
>        TESTSUITEFLAGS="-k substitute -k define -k torturing -k AS_ECHO"

Solaris 8
284 tests behaved as expected.
16 tests were skipped.

UnixWare 7.1.1
284 tests behaved as expected.
16 tests were skipped.

UnixWare 7.1.4
291 tests behaved as expected.
9 tests were skipped.

OpenServer 6.0.0 test fine.
283 tests behaved as expected.
17 tests were skipped.

OpenServer 5.0.7 
/bin/ksh ./testsuite
/testsuite[966]: : is not an identifier
gmake[2]: *** [check-local] Error 1

However, If I configure it to use /usr/bin/bash (bash is not in /bin) I get
ERROR: 283 tests were run,
5 failed (4 expected failures).
17 tests were skipped.

Test 100 failed.

It is interesting that OpenServer 6 uses bash without specifying CONFIG_SHELL
on the configure line. But then bash can be found in /bin on OpenServer 6.

On the OpenServer 5.0..7 box I just tried
....
gmake check CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/bin/bash \
        TESTSUITEFLAGS="-k substitute -k define -k torturing -k AS_ECHO"
....
add got "All 7 tests behaved as expected."

I'm not sure why test 100 didn't use bash the first time.

> 
> Thanks,
> Ralf
> 
> 
> 

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