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Re: Filenames with "=" crash contrib/test_summary
- To: "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David dot Billinghurst at riotinto dot com>
- Subject: Re: Filenames with "=" crash contrib/test_summary
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 08 Aug 2000 22:13:34 -0300
- Cc: "'gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <A9E96A79C068D211A6A90000C07BDF0D88F1D7@crtsmail.crts.techaust.riotinto.com.au>
On Aug 8, 2000, "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com> wrote:
> ./mips-sgi-irix6.5/mabi=64/libstdc++/testsuite/libstdc++.sum in the build
> tree crashes contrib/test_summary script.
> gawk: cmd. line:40: (FILENAME=./gcc/testsuite/g++.sum FNR=12122) fatal:
> illegal name `./mips-sgi-irix6.5/mabi' in variable assignment
Which version of gawk is that? I can't reproduce this with gawk
3.0.5.
The problem seems to be that the version of gawk you're using
interprets any argument containing `=' as a variable assignment,
instead of checking whether what is on the left of the `=' sign is a
valid variable name.
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