Re: Beta release of gawk 5.1.1

[arnold]

Hi.

"Neil R. Ormos" <ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org> wrote:

> I was asking because I had been unable to build gawk using source from the
> publicly-advertised SCCS--perhaps git on savannah--on several occasions
> in the past.  It appeared that a couple of elements in the build process
> required versions of tools that were newer than what I had, running stock
> Debian (oldstable) at the time.  So I didn't know if I should expect to
> build on anything older than Debian Stable or "don't bother".

You can do this without trouble, but (cough, cough), as documented
in the manual, you must first run ./bootstrap.sh before running
configure.

> In any case, I had no trouble building gawk 5.1.1 from the tar archive you
> linked a few days ago, on systems running Debian Stretch (OldOldStable)
> and Debian Squeeze (Old^5 Stable).

This is to be expected. The tar balls are setup such that the time
stamps on the files will not require any external build tools.

HTH,

Arnold