Re: spencer1-locale and awk -v

[Jim Meyering]

Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> 'make check' on Mac OS X causes spencer1-locale to fail with an error
> that awk doesn't support -v option. The attached patch fixes it by
> adding a space after -v.

Thanks, Tony.
I've just pushed this, and it will be part of 2.6.1.

>From 74ab780290c4cfdd71f4981d011041d44fbffffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Abou-Assaleh <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:12:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: use awk's -v option more portably

* tests/spencer1-locale: Add a space between awk's "-v" option and
the following VAR=value string, to avoid test failure on Mac OS X.
---
 tests/spencer1-locale |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/spencer1-locale b/tests/spencer1-locale
index f0b2011..fa9909d 100755
--- a/tests/spencer1-locale
+++ b/tests/spencer1-locale
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ fail=0

 # . . . and the following by Henry Spencer.

-${AWK-awk} -vextra_locale=$LOCALE_FR_UTF8 \
+${AWK-awk} -v extra_locale=$LOCALE_FR_UTF8 \
     -f "$abs_srcdir/spencer1-locale.awk" "$abs_srcdir/spencer1.tests" \
   > spencer1-locale.script || fail=1

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