On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > It looks like the "at_help_all" variable has 12270 characters in it. > > The ksh (/usr/bin/posix/sh is a symbolic link to ksh) is blowing up > > at 4074 characters. > > Does the patch below fix this for you? It is just a wee bit unfortunate > because with most shells it causes quadratic initialization time, which > in practice means something like doubled overhead for Autoconf's > ./tests/testsuite --list
While it allows the testsuite to be run....... ... ERROR: 269 tests were run, 138 failed (5 expected failures). 16 tests were skipped. ... > > Cheers, > Ralf > > * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Define `AT_help_all' > to append a line to the shell variable `at_help_all'. > (AT_INIT): Adjust accordingly, so that variable assignment > statement length does overflow OpenServer /usr/bin/posix/sh > limits. Reported by Tim Rice in > > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-06/msg00013.html>. -- Tim Rice Multitalents (707) 887-1469 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
