Re: Autoconf-2.68b possible patch for FreeBSD, MacOS X

2012-03-07 Thread P. Martin
On Mar 7, 2012, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Thanks, that helps. The issue is clearly due to the limited > 'grep -E' implementation on that platform: it sometimes > (but not always!) complains 'Regular expression too big' > for a 938-byte regular expression in the test. > > I hope the following furth

Re: Autoconf-2.68b possible patch for FreeBSD, MacOS X

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/07/2012 01:42 PM, P. Martin wrote: > The test dirs from adding your patch are now up on my repo: > https://github.com/2bits/actest Thanks, that helps. The issue is clearly due to the limited 'grep -E' implementation on that platform: it sometimes (but not always!) complains 'Regular express

Re: Autoconf-2.68b possible patch for FreeBSD, MacOS X

2012-03-07 Thread P. Martin
On Mar 7, 2012, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 03/06/2012 11:52 PM, P. Martin wrote: > > I fail nearly all the > > tests now after about 270 on OSX Lion. Please lmk if you want > > some test dirs. > > Sure, some test output would be helpful. The test dirs from adding your patch are now up on my

Re: Autoconf-2.68b possible patch for FreeBSD, MacOS X

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/06/2012 11:52 PM, P. Martin wrote: > I fail nearly all the > tests now after about 270 on OSX Lion. Please lmk if you want > some test dirs. Sure, some test output would be helpful.

Re: Autoconf-2.68b possible patch for FreeBSD, MacOS X

2012-03-06 Thread P. Martin
> On Mar 6, 2012, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Can you please also try the attached patch? > It's needed regardless, and I think it may attack > some failures being reported for FreeBSD and MacOS X. > I've pushed this to autoconf master as: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?i