Hello,
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 07:01:24PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > my guess is that the testsuite script wasn't updated properly.
> It was.
Sorry.
> | awk: The string or regular expression beginning with
> | the characters " banner-1 " cannot contain more than 399 bytes.
..
> Also note the different error message (quoted in my last messages).
OK, I commited the patch attached to this message.
Hopefully it fixes it.
Have a nice day,
Stepan
2005-06-04 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): AIX awk cannot
swallow literals longer than 399. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Pass $at_groups though stdin,
to workaround this limitation.
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.903
diff -u -r1.903 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 1 Jun 2005 07:20:26 -0000 1.903
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 4 Jun 2005 07:26:07 -0000
@@ -11513,6 +11513,9 @@
Either do not depend on such patterns (i.e., use @samp{/^(.*foo|bar)/},
or use a simple test to reject such [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] version 5.2 limits on the maximal length of regular
+expressions and literal strings in the program to 399.
+
@item @command{cat}
@c ----------------
Index: lib/autotest/general.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autotest/general.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.180
diff -u -r1.180 general.m4
--- lib/autotest/general.m4 2 Jun 2005 23:30:13 -0000 1.180
+++ lib/autotest/general.m4 4 Jun 2005 07:26:07 -0000
@@ -442,10 +442,11 @@
_ATEOF
# " 1 42 45 " => "^(1|42|45);".
- echo "$at_help_all" |
- awk 'BEGIN {
- for (n = split("'"$at_groups"'", a); n; n--) selected[[a[n]]] = 1
+ echo "$at_groups$as_nl$at_help_all" |
+ awk 'NR == 1 {
+ for (n = NF; n; n--) selected[[$n]] = 1
FS = ";"
+ next
}
{
if (selected[[$ 1]]) {
