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From: arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: Installation report for gawk 2.11.1
Message-ID: <197@audfax.audiofax.com>
Date: 23 Jan 90 16:01:28 GMT
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In article <9001222301.AA22726@kovic.IRO.UMontreal.CA> pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (Francois Pinard) writes:
>No doubt it works.  Nevertheless, it would be nicer if there were
>really not any installation nor compilation complaints.

Unfortunately, it is impossible for us to verify that gawk compiles and
installs with no complaints on every possible Unix variant.  In particular,
neither David nor I had access to SunOS 3.5 when we were doing gawk 2.11.
My current work environment does include SunOS 3.5, so maybe that environment
will be included in the next patch.

> 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.

This is reasonable.  If I don't forget about it, it'll be in the next patch
or in 2.12.  (Who knows when...)
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