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Re: Beta release of gawk 3.1.6 now available - MinGW and DJGPP builds
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Beta release of gawk 3.1.6 now available - MinGW and DJGPP builds |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:10:38 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:46:56 +0200
> From: Manuel Collado <address@hidden>
>
> ----- MingGW build
>
> Eli Zaretskii escribió:
> > ...
> > Here are the patches I used for my build:
> > ...
>
> Thank you very much. Your patches work ok in my machine.
Thanks for testing.
> Besides the recommended build procedure, I've also naively attempted a
> ./configure & make build. Suprisingly, it works ok on one machine, but
> ./configure aborts on a similar one (sorry, the abort message scrolled
> quickly out of the window). I still have to grab and diagnose it.
Did you build on plain DOS or on Windows? If the latter, on which
version of Windows was that?
> The successful build passes all but 7 tests. The diffs are at:
>
> http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado/gawk/djgpp/fail.log
Some tests are known to fail with DJGPP (they should announce
themselves). The reason is features that aren't supported in the
DJGPP port, such as networking or pipes.
> You possibly know, I'm a member of the xgawk team. We really need
> support for dynamic extensions. There is some advice in
> README_d/README.pcdynamic, and in the DJGPP documentation of dlopen()
> and related stuff. Do you have pointers to additional documentation, or
> (better) working sample code?
I don't think anyone's got dynamic linking to work reliably in DJGPP.
I've seen some concept demonstration code, but that's all.