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Re: [PATCHes] gawk-3.1.0 build problems under DJGPP


From: Peter J. Farley III
Subject: Re: [PATCHes] gawk-3.1.0 build problems under DJGPP
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:21:30 -0400

At 09:52 AM 8/8/01 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>I know about this, and deliberately left the current compiled-in
>defaults as they were.  The reason for this is that Gawk, being a
>package that makes sense on its own, might well be installed on a
>system without the rest of DJGPP, in which case /dev/env/DJDIR will
>not work.  OTOH, if DJGPP _is_ installed, the djgpp.env file already
>takes care of the few Gawk-related environment variables.  So it
>looked to me that changing the compiled-in defaults wasn't a good
>idea.

Eli,

I see your point. I too have used gawk independently of DJGPP, so I guess I must agree that is a reasonable choice.

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