Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 01:32:09AM CEST: > Thanks for reporting that. I installed this fix.
Thanks for this prompt response, and sorry for not providing a patch myself. Also, I believe there was no need to update documentation since SUSv3 mentions (at least) 256 characters for a regex (in general, not just awk). However, this patch unfortunately does not fix it: | $ ./testsuite --list | GNU Autoconf 2.59c test suite test groups: | | NUM: FILE-NAME:LINE TEST-GROUP-NAME | KEYWORDS | | awk: The string or regular expression beginning with | the characters " banner-1 " cannot contain more than 399 bytes. | The source line is 2. | The error context is | 3 74 75 76 banner-8 77 78 79 80 banner-9 81 82 83 banner-10 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 banner-11 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 >>> 1 <<< 02 103 banner-12 104 105 banner-13 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 banner-14 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 banner-15 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 banner-16 152 banner-17 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 banner-18 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 banner-19 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 banner-20 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 banner-21 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 banner-22 225 banner-23 226 banner-24 227", a); n; n--) selected[a[n]] = 1 | syntax error The source line is 3. | awk: The statement cannot be correctly parsed. | The source line is 3. I could try to work on a patch, but it will take a little while, sorry. Regards, Ralf, who'll eventually get back to his other pending issues as well.. > 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.
