Thanks for reporting that. I installed this fix.
2005-06-02 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't create a regular
expression of unbounded size when processing the --list
option. This runs afoul of a limit of 399 bytes per regular
expression on AIX. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
--- general.m4 20 May 2005 08:13:16 -0000 1.179
+++ general.m4 2 Jun 2005 23:30:13 -0000 1.180
@@ -442,12 +442,17 @@ AT_TESTSUITE_NAME test groups:
_ATEOF
# " 1 42 45 " => "^(1|42|45);".
- at_groups_pattern=`echo "$at_groups" | sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//;s/ */|/g'`
echo "$at_help_all" |
- awk 'BEGIN { FS = ";" }
- { if ($[1] !~ /^('"$at_groups_pattern"')$/) next }
- { if ($[1]) printf " %3d: %-18s %s\n", $[1], $[2], $[3]
- if ($[4]) printf " %s\n", $[4] } '
+ awk 'BEGIN {
+ for (n = split("'"$at_groups"'", a); n; n--) selected[[a[n]]] = 1
+ FS = ";"
+ }
+ {
+ if (selected[[$ 1]]) {
+ printf " %3d: %-18s %s\n", $ 1, $ 2, $ 3
+ if ($ 4) printf " %s\n", $ 4
+ }
+ }'
exit 0
fi
m4_divert_pop([HELP_END])dnl
