Re: awk for config headers

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

The Autoconf Manual says: "Traditional Awk split supports only two
arguments."

I think you may be looking at an old version of the manual.  The
current version says this:


string containing just one ordinary character, and similarly for the
field-separator argument to @code{split}.

In code portable to both traditional and modern Awk, @code{FS} must be a

"version 2.61, 16 November 2006"


I'll rebuild my copy of the manual from the Git repo then.

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

it's the latest version available online on gnu.org but *you* might be looking at some "newer" version of the manual :)

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