Re: Beta release of gawk 5.1.1

[arnold]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: arnold@skeeve.com
> > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 01:10:50 -0600
> > 
> > I don't have any comment. Gawk uses facilities that have
> > been in Linux for decades; it should be possible to backport
> > it quite a ways, but I'm not going to do any experiments.
> > 
> > Let's see. You do need a C99 compiler, but that may
> > be it.
> > 
> > If someone finds issues I'm happy to evaluate if they are
> > worth addressing or not.
>
> What about the regex and dfa functions in glibc?  Building Gawk on
> GNU/Linux uses the versions from glibc, not the Gnulib replacements,
> right?  If so, which glibc versions have the right code?

Not correct. Building gawk always uses the versions I supply.  So the
GLIBC version shouldn't be a problem. (What you say _is_ true of GNU grep,
unless one of their configure tests decides that the GLIBC version is
too old.)

Thanks,

Arnold