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Date:	Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:47:51 +0100
From:	"Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Gawk 4.2.1 uploaded.
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

This is a port of GNU Gawk 4.2.1 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


   GNU Gawk is an interpreter for text scanning and processing language named
   Awk. It is specifically suited for programs that process text files one line
   at a time, but can also be used for much more complex tasks.



   DJGPP specific changes.
   =======================

   - The DJGPP port now supports three new targets that can be selected by
     passing one of the following options to the Makefile:
       djgpp-mpfr
       djgpp-readline
       djgpp-readline-mpfr
     The first compiles Gawk with mpfr support.  To compile this version
     the following ports must have been installed before:
       ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gmp612b.zip
       ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/mpfr316b.zip
     The second compiles Gawk with readline support.  To compile this
     version the following port must have been installed before:
       ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/rdln70b.zip
     The third compiles Gawk with readline and mpfr support.  To compile
     this version all enumerated ports must have been installed before.
     To compile Gawk without any of these features just simply pass the
     option:
       djgpp
     to the Makefile.
   - The distributed binary archive file (aka gwk421b.zip) contains two
     different versions of the port, one is the usual Gawk program without
     any of the features complied in and called gawk.exe and a second one
     compiled with readline and mpfr support called gawk_ext.exe.  Select
     the one you prefer and delete the other one.
   - Although gawk already offers DJGPP support out-of-the-box, I have done
     some minor changes to the Makefile.tst.  All changes I have done to this
     gawk version are documented in the diffs file stored in the /pc/djgpp
     directory.
   - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3, Win98SE and on
     MSDOS 6.22.  Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible
     to build without LFN support.
   - Please note that the only supported way to configure and compile gawk
     using DJGPP is by using the makefiles and other code files and headers
     files stored in the /pc directory.  Because the distributed source
     archive file (aka gwk421s.zip) is already configured, all these files
     are already installed in the right directories.
     It is neither possible nor supported by the gawk maintainers to
     configure the DJGPP port by just running the configure script.  This
     has never been the case and will never be the case.  Use the port
     specific files stored in the /pc directory as explained in the README.pc
     file that is stored in the /README_d directory.


   Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes from
   the last port (GNU Gawk 4.2.0) to this one:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1
---------------------------

1. Support for OS/2 has been brought up to date.  This support was
    accidentally omitted from the initial 4.2 release, for which
    we apologize.

2. The manual received a number of updates to make it format better
    for PDF.

3. A new configure option, --enable-versioned-dir, causes the directory
    holding extensions to include the API version in its name.

4. extension/configure.ac has been improved considerably.

5. In MPFR mode, When ROUNDMODE changes, string values for numerically
    type values will be redone.

6. The various 'inplace' tests now pass on modern BSD systems.

7. A number of bugs, some of them quite significant, have been fixed.
    See the ChangeLog for details.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


   Compiling the sources.
   ======================

   Compile, test and install the binaries produced from the source
   distribution running the following commands from the top source
   directory (aka gawk-4.2.1):
     make
     make check
     make install

   31 tests from the test suite will fail without aborting the test suite.
   This is expected to happen.  It may be usefull to increment the "files"
   directive in your config.sys or config.nt to around the max. value of 255
   before running the testsuite.
   For further information about GNU Gawk please read the info docs
   and NEWS file.


   The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced
   using djdev205 and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors
   as (time stamp 2018-03-03):


     Gawk 4.2.1 binary, info and man format documentation:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gwk421b.zip

     Gawk 4.2.1 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gwk421d.zip

     Gawk 4.2.1 source:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gwk421s.zip


   Send Gawk specific bug reports to <bug-gawk AT gnu DOT org>.
   Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
   to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

       Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>

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