Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59c] testsuite: 1 6 7 11 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 70 71 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 failed

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

I introduced the problem by the following command
        
awk '/^ \t*case/,/^ \t*esac/{if(/\[\^.*\)/) exit(1)}'

which I added to autotest.  The testsuite is not working properly.

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Ralf Menzel wrote:
> I'm using a Solaris 9 machine and the Sun Workshop 9.0 compiler:

Yes, Solaris' /bin/awk has a very limited capabilities.  Every time
I try to use awk, I run into this.  Unfortunately, I don't have access
to Solaris.

There are several ways to fix the problem:

1) either adapt the script so that it works even with Solaris' /bin/awk

What may be the root of the problem?
- the commma in:   /re1/, /re2/
- the regex in if:   if(/re/)
- or, most likely, the "exit"

2) Or, preferably, add AC_PROG_AWK to configure.ac and use $AWK.

That way we'd use at least /bin/nawk, which might work.
With a patch I have in my queue, we'd even find /usr/xpg4/bin/awk,
which is POSIX-conformant.

I'll look at it again later.

Stepan