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Re: testing Autoconf with awk
From: |
Tim Rice |
Subject: |
Re: testing Autoconf with awk |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:01:49 -0800 (PST) |
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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- testing Autoconf with awk, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/12/09
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Tim Rice, 2006/12/12
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/12/13
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Tim Rice, 2006/12/13
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/12/14
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Tim Rice, 2006/12/14
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/12/16
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk,
Tim Rice <=
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Paul Eggert, 2006/12/17
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Tim Rice, 2006/12/17
- Re: testing Autoconf with awk, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/12/19