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Re: Filenames with "=" crash contrib/test_summary


On Aug  8, 2000, "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com> wrote:

>> From:	Alexandre Oliva [SMTP:aoliva@redhat.com]

>> 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.

> Quite right.  Moving to gawk 3.0.5 (from 3.0.0) solves the problem.
> Still a portablilty issue, but probably not worth solving.

It was simple enough.  I'm checking in the following patch:

Index: contrib/ChangeLog
from  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>

	* test_summary: AWK breaks with filenames containing `='.

Index: contrib/test_summary
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/egcs/contrib/test_summary,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 test_summary
--- contrib/test_summary	2000/06/04 02:06:54	1.15
+++ contrib/test_summary	2000/08/09 05:09:06
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@
 done &&
 $anyfile &&
 if $forcemail || $anychange; then :; else mailto=nobody; fi &&
+# We use cat instead of listing the files as arguments to AWK because
+# GNU awk 3.0.0 would break if any of the filenames contained `=' and
+# was preceded by an invalid ``variable'' name.
+cat ./config.status $files |
 $AWK '
 BEGIN {
   lang="";
@@ -122,7 +126,7 @@
   print "Mail -s \"Results for " prefix version lang "testsuite on " host "\" '"${mailto}"' &&";
 }}
 { next; }
-' ./config.status $files | sed "s/\([\`\$\\\\]\)/\\\\\\1/g" &&
+' | sed "s/\([\`\$\\\\]\)/\\\\\\1/g" &&
 if $move; then
     for file in $files `ls -1 $files | sed s/sum$/log/`; do
       [ -f $file ] && echo "mv `pwd`/$file `pwd`/$file.sent &&"

-- 
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