Message-Id: <200503241306.j2OD6YWp019887@delorie.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:43:36 +0100 From: Juan Manuel Guerrero X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en-us, en To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Gawk 3.1.4 uploaded X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mailgate2.igd.fraunhofer.de 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 , 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 . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel