Re: testing Autoconf with awk

[Tim Rice]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Tim Rice wrote on Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:00:10AM CET:
> > 
> > It doesn't fix the error I get when I configure without CONFIG_SHELL
> > ....
> > /bin/ksh ./testsuite
> > /testsuite[966]: : is not an identifier
> 
> I'm really not sure if the following is more portable, even if it
> happens to work on your hosts.  Could you try it?

Fixes the "/bin/ksh ./testsuite" part but then about 134 tests fail.

[snip]
> literal length; it's just not overflowing for most packages.  I wonder
> whether we should just document "use bash" on these systems.

OK by me. If we use bash, OpenSever 5 has never looked so good.
 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
> 2006-12-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * lib/autotest/general.m4 (at_help_all): Initialize with a here
>       document rather than a shell string literal, to avoid triggering
>       some OpenUnix 5.0.7 ksh buffer overflow.
>       Report by Tim Rice.
> 
> Index: lib/autotest/general.m4
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autotest/general.m4,v
> retrieving revision 1.218
> diff -u -r1.218 general.m4
> --- lib/autotest/general.m4   25 Nov 2006 09:57:34 -0000      1.218
> +++ lib/autotest/general.m4   16 Dec 2006 15:45:54 -0000
> @@ -278,7 +278,12 @@
>  # numerical order.
>  at_format='m4_bpatsubst(m4_defn([AT_ordinal]), [.], [?])'
>  # Description of all the test groups.
> -at_help_all="AS_ESCAPE(m4_defn([AT_help_all]))"])])dnl
> +cat > "$at_dir/$as_me$$.help" <<\_ATEOF
> +AT_help_all
> +_ATEOF
> +at_help_all=`cat "$at_dir/$as_me$$.help"`
> +rm -f "$at_dir/$as_me$$.help"
> +])])dnl
>  m4_divert_push([PARSE_ARGS])dnl
>  
>  at_prev=
> 
> 
> 

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