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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:32:41 +0100
From: Morten Nygaard Aasnes <mortenn AT imr DOT no>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.3.1: printf bug in awk?
Message-ID: <20011108123241.D19081@imr.no>
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In-Reply-To: <09719EC6B8C4D5119A7600D0B76FDDE10B83D8@cpex3.channelpoint.com>; from troy.noble@channelpoint.com on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:39:51AM -0700

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:39:51AM -0700, Troy Noble wrote:
> Seems to be fixed in gawk-3.1.0 at least.  I just downloaded and
> built it with latest cygwin and I get:
> 
> .../gawk-3.1.0$ ./gawk.exe 'BEGIN {printf "%10.0g\n",3.14; exit}'
>          3

Thank you, that fixed the problem.

> Perhaps you could convince the cygwin gawk package maintainer to
> update to 3.1.0.  But in the meantime, you can compile 3.1.0 yourself
> to work around the problem.  If you've done a full cygwin install,
> it's literally as simple as download and then ./configure ; make 

This is probably a stupid question, but how do I find out who the
maintainer of the gawk package in cygwin is?

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