Re: [bug-gawk] beta release of what will be gawk 4.0.1 now available

[Jeroen Schot]

Hello,

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 09:06:48PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> This note is to announce the first BETA release of GNU Awk 4.0.1.
> [...]
> So, why do a beta release? So that you, yes you, the end user, can see
> if anything I've done breaks gawk for you.  Then you can TELL ME ABOUT
> IT so that I can fix it for the final release.

This beta release was uploaded to Debian experimental. As can be seen
here[1] it has been build successfully (including test suite) on all
Debian architectures. 

[1]: <https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gawk&suite=experimental>

I did notice one small issue with two tests (beginfile2 and next) that
compare diagnostic messages from gawk but do not set LC_ALL. This can
cause them to fail when using a non English locale. Attached is a
patch that fixes this, although I do not know if this is the right
approach.

Regards,
-- 
Jeroen Schot

0001-Set-LC_ALL-C-for-locale-dependent-tests-beginfile2-a.patch
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