Re: Compiling gawk on Tandem NSK/OSS

[Matthew Woehlke]

How does one subscribe to bug-gawk? (And would anyone mind if we 
subscribed gmane?) It isn't listed on http://lists.gnu.org/ which seemed 
the likely place for it to show up.

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Matthew Woehlke on 11/7/2006 2:35 PM:
> > I am trying to build gawk 3.1.5 on Tandem NSK/OSS. To get this to work,
> > I had to apply the following patch:
> >
> > ==== BEGIN patch
> > --- gawk-3.1.5/awk.h    2005-07-26 11:07:43.000000000 -0700
> > +++ gawk-3.1.5-oss/awk.h        2006-11-07 11:47:38.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
> >  #define _GNU_SOURCE    1       /* enable GNU extensions */
> >  #endif /* _GNU_SOURCE */
> >
> > +#define _TANDEM_SOURCE
> > +#define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1
>
> Isn't this taken care of by using the latest version of the gnulib
> extensions module?  At any rate, my understanding is that autoconf 2.61
> will also take care of this, by including the changes that gnulib made
> post autoconf-2.60.  Is gawk even using gnulib yet?

From working on porting coreutils, I believe gnulib is mostly there (or 
if it isn't, I hope to find out soon and will get back to you), but I 
don't remember running into the need to '#define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 
1' yet (maybe this was there already?), even if it does look like this 
is only needed because of a buggy netdb.h.

Anyway, to answer your question, I don't see that gawk is using gnulib 
(but I could be wrong, I'm not all that familiar with gnulib - and 
certainly not gawk - myself).

> > ...and I also had to add '-lzrldsrl' to LIBS (this is NSK's '-ldl').
>
> Ralf posted a better solution to this on the autoconf list.

Right, gawk's configure.ac needs to be updated.

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Matthew
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