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

[Aharon Robbins]

Thanks for the patch. I'm reviewing now.

Arnold

> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:27:14 +0100
> To: address@hidden
> From: Jeroen Schot <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] beta release of what will be gawk 4.0.1 now available
>
> 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