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Subject: Problems with Dombuild on ptx
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Date: 7 May 91 11:48:06 GMT
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I'm having awful trouble porting UK-Sendmail 2.1 to a Sequent ptx machine.
The problem is in the Dombuild script; it seems that there is simply too
much data for awk to process, and it crashes with a SEGV.

The point of fail comes where it tries to do a split on domain[rhs]. Depending
on what other strings are in the program, and whether the data is in a file
or sent to awk on standard input, the failure point is at around 300 elements.
Best I can get is that domain[uk.ac] will split with 302 elements, but if
that works awk crashes doing domain[uk.co].

Anyone else have this problem? What's the remedy? I've tried deleting elements
of the arrays as they're finished with, but that doesn't seem to improve
things. Is the size of the NRS such that awk just can't cope, and should I
rewrite the stuff in C?

I've noticed that on our Sequent Dynix 3 system (BSD 4.2) the awk script is
_very_ close to the point of fail too.....

Any advice appreciated.....

Alan Phillips