Re: [bug-gawk] About AWKLIBPATH

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi Hermann,

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 07:25:43PM +0100, Hermann Peifer wrote:
> Here a loosely related question: Do I see this right that gawk installs
> its extensions like intdiv, etc. into PREFIX/lib/gawk-extensions whereas
> gawkextlib's XML extension is installed into PREFIX/lib/gawk. Is this
> how it should be? I am building from git, in both cases.

You should be able to see the default value of AWKLIBPATH compiled into
gawk like so:

   unset AWKLIBPATH
   gawk 'BEGIN {print ENVIRON["AWKLIBPATH"]}'

On my system, the installed gawk shows this:

bash-4.2$    gawk 'BEGIN {print ENVIRON["AWKLIBPATH"]}'
/usr/lib64/gawk

And that's where I find both the bundled gawk extensions and
the gawkextlib extensions:

bash-4.2$ ls /usr/lib64/gawk/
errno.so      fork.so     mpfr.so    readdir.so    revtwoway.so  testext.so
filefuncs.so  inplace.so  ordchr.so  readfile.so   rwarray.so    time.so
fnmatch.so    lmdb.so     pgsql.so   revoutput.so  select.so     xml.so

But oy, I just built and installed gawk-4.2-stable, and you are right:
the extensions are now going in PREFIX/lib/gawk-extensions.
This is broken. It does not match the AWKLIBPATH compiled into gawk.

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Regards,
Andy