Re: ./configure fontforge oddity

[Graham Percival]

On 7-Feb-05, at 12:17 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Graham Percival writes:
>
> > > > ./configure: line 8126: test: 2.00501e+13: integer expression 
> > > > expected
> > >
> > > What does fontforge --version say, exactly?
> >
> > fontforge 20050117
>
> What version of awk do you use?  Can you try these commands?
>
>     echo 20050117 | gawk '{printf "%d\n", $1*1000000}'
>     echo 20050117 | gawk '{printf "%ld\n", $1*1000000}'
>
> With GNU Awk 3.1.4, both yield 20050117000000.

spark:~ gperciva$     echo 20050117 | gawk '{printf "%d\n", $1*1000000}'
2.00501e+13
spark:~ gperciva$     echo 20050117 | gawk '{printf "%ld\n", 
$1*1000000}'
2.00501e+13
spark:~ gperciva$ gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.2
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2003 Free Software Foundation.


I guess this explains it.
- Graham