Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:54:22PM CEST: > Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
