X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <201803041718.w24HIa7v032647@delorie.com> 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]" To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Gawk 4.2.1 uploaded. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed 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 . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel