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From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (Francois Pinard)
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Subject: Installation report for gawk 2.11.1
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Date: 22 Jan 90 23:01:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: Arnold D. Robbins's message of Sun, 21 Jan 90 16:07:39 EST <9001211607.AA04072@skeeve.UUCP>

   > Here are a few comments from installing gawk 2.11.1.
   [...]

Thanks for your answers, in particular, regarding the forgotten
-DTMPNAM_MISSING on SunOS 3.5 and the possible local installation
glitch for GNU C on the Sparcs, here.  About:

   [...]
   This is known -- not all versions of bison accept the -y flag.  The rule
   in the Makefile specifically starts with a "-" for this reason.
   [...]
   None of these are serious [C compilation] errors, particularly the
   last ones.  Gawk should work just fine.

No doubt it works.  Nevertheless, it would be nicer if there were
really not any installation nor compilation complaints.  About bison,
only old versions would not accept -y.  Why not use -y and simply add
a comment in the Makefile saying something like:

	# If you bison does not understand -y, get a more recent version
	# of bison or, if you prefer, adjust the following lines.

   It is known that gawk.texinfo and texinfo-format-buffer don't get
   along.  [...]  There is a program called makeinfo [...] which is
   unfortunately not released yet.

One day :-).

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Franc,ois Pinard                                    pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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