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Re: [HACKERS] run_check problem

Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> — 1999-11-26T18:16:12Z

>Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>
>Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> This is due to 2 problems.
>> 1) The awk script is broken over 2 lines.
>> 2) Solaris's awk does not seem to understand REs in split(). (nawk's OK)
>
>I don't think so --- the exact same split() construct is there in the
>old regress.sh test driver, same as it ever was.  I can believe the line
>break is a problem, but if there's another problem then you need to
>keep digging.
>
>Comparing the two scripts, I wonder if Jan broke it by adding '/bin/sh'
>to the invocation of config.guess.  Doesn't seem very likely, but...
>

Unfortunately, the old script was broken too. It's just that
I'd not noticed as I'd included a patch to change awk to nawk
my auto build script.

I tried different pernutations of quotes, brackets n'all last 
night and came to the conclusion that it couldn't be done with
solaris awk. (I'm not very patient though ;-( )

anyone for sed and tr ?