Re: FAIL: autopoint-3

[Santiago Vila]

El 22/6/24 a las 1:05, Bruno Haible escribió:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > So, yes, this is most probably a memory-handling bug in mawk.
>
> Can you debug it? I don't think valgrind is needed; simply recompiling
> the mawk binary with clang + ASAN + UBSAN should reveal the relevant stack
> traces.
>
> So far, GNU been stating that any 'awk' implementation is sufficient
> for executing configure scripts. I wouldn't like to have to remove 'mawk'
> from the list of possible choices.

I agree.

Fortunately, that will not be necessary, as I bisected the bug yesterday
and found that the bug exists since version 20231101, so I told the
upstream mawk maintainer (Thomas Dickey) about it, and he suggested
this fix:

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/original-mawk/issues/77

which fixes my issue as well, so there is actually nothing to debug.

For the Debian package, I still will have to add something like this
to the build-depends:

gawk | mawk (>= fixed-version)

at least for trixie, because that's better than disabling a test.

Thanks.