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Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:43:36 +0100
From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT igd DOT fhg DOT de>
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Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Gawk 3.1.4 uploaded
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This is a port of GNU Gawk 3.1.4 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  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.
  =======================

  - djdev203 and djdev204 specific:
    The configure script checks for the existance of the passwd 
structure but
    it does not check neither for the struct element: pw_gecos nor for the
    element: pw_passwd. Both are mised in djdev203 making the build of the
    binaries: grcat.c and prcat.c fail if the source is configured and
    compiled with djdev203. djdev204 has both missed struct elements so the
    build of both programs will not fail.
    To fix this issue the generated config.h file will contain code that 
will
    check for djdev203 (brocken passwd struct) or djdev204 (working passwd)
    and enaibling or disabling the access to the missing struct elements in
    grcat.c and prcat.c accordingly.
    As usual, the diffs file stored in /djgpp dir documents the changes from
    the FSF distribution.
    Please note that the distributed binaries have been build with djdev203.

  - djdev204 specific:
    The source package contains a copy of the new popen.c file from the cvs
    source tree of djdev204 (2004-12-08). A special configure batch file has
    been added that will automatically compile this file and replace the
    brocken popen.o and pclose.o implementations from djdev204. This applies
    only if the sources are configured for djdev204 instead of djdev203.
    Binaries compiled with djdev203 do not need this change because their
    popen()/pclose() implementation is not brocken.
   

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

  Configuration, compilation and running the testsuite has been done on 
win98se
  My winxp is brocken so no configuartion, compilation and testing at 
all for
  that OS this time. With other words, the build and the running of the
  testsuite may or may not work. This must be tested by the interrested 
parties.
  - If you compile the sources with djdev203, you must proceed as usual 
running
    the following commands from the top srcdir, this is gawk-3.1-4:
      make
      make check
      make install

    6 tests from the testsuite will fail. The failure of the space-test may
    be savely ignored. The reason for the reported failure is the text
    difference in distributed space.ok and the gawk produced _space file.
    This kind of files contain the error output generated by gawk. This
    output is different if gawk is compiled with posix/linux libc or the
    djgpp libc. The other failures may be generated due to not supported
    posix features by djgpp. But this needs further investigation.

  - If you compile the sources with djdev204 it will be essential to 
reconfigure
    sources because the distributed one have been configured for 
djdev203. For
    this purpose you **must** delete the cache file djgpp/config.cache 
or you
    will get a broken binary.
    Due to the actually broken popen() from beta djdev204 the configuration
    batch file (xp-config.bat) will modify the /lib/Makefile in such a way
    that the distributed popen.c file is compiled into the libsed.a and 
linked
    instead of the broken implementations of the beta djdev204 libc.

    In conclusion, to rebuild the sed binary with djdev204 to get a binary
    usefull for WinXP run the following commands from the top srcdir
    (gawk-3.1-4):
      rm djgpp/config.cache
      djgpp\xp-config.bat
      make
      make check
      make install

    Please note that the removing of the cache file is essential. It should
    also be noticed that xp-config.bat shall be used to configure the 
sources
    or the /lib/Makefile will not be modified in the correct way producing a
    broken binary.
    No test of the testsuite shall fail.
    Please do **not** report anything to <bug-gawk AT gnu DOT org>, if there are
    problems with this port there are probably djdev203/204 originated 
and must
    be discussed and solved here.


    As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, readme files, 
etc.)
    are located in the /djgpp subdir.



  The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from
  ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2005-03-21):

    Gawk 3.1.4 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gwk314b.zip

    Gawk 3.1.4 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gwk314d.zip

    Gawk 3.1.4 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gwk314s.zip


  Send Sed specific bug reports to <bug-gnu-utils 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 igd DOT fhg DOT de>

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