Re: [HACKERS] run_check problem

>Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
>
>Keith Parks <emkxp01(at)mtcc(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)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 ?