Re: Feedback for BETA release of GNU Awk 5.1.1.f

[arnold]

Hi.

J Naman <jnaman2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Feedback for BETA release of GNU Awk 5.1.1.f Cygwin Install under Windows
> 10 Pro

I don't support Cygwin; you may need to get further help on their
mailing list. That said, ...

> This was *my first build* of Gawk from source and the result looks to be
> excellent. I experienced a few bumps along the road doing this first
> install, configure, and make.
>
> Following the instruction in B.3.1.4 Using gawk In The Cygwin Environment
> **** Doc note:* change gawk-5.1.0.tar.gz to *gawk-5.1.1.tar.gz*  *** very
> minor detail

Thanks for this reminder.

> My first ./configure had some messages about missing libraries
>
> **** Needed to install the following packages to Cygwin via
> setup-x86_64.exe *(non-defaults for Cygwin, but *required for a full Gawk
> make*). I simply checked them off the Cygwin gui install list:
>
> autoconf package (wrapper, I assumed it was needed)
> autoconf2.5 package (== latest version)
> bison
> byacc
> ELFIO package
> gmp library
> libsigsegv library
> libiconv2 library
> mpfr library
> texinfo

I am suprised at this. Did you use the 'p' flag (preserve timestamp)
when you extracted the tar ball?

        tar -xpvf gawk-5.1.1f.tar.gz

In particular you should not need to rerun bison and configure should
detect that mpfr, gmp and sigsegv libraries are not installed and
let you build anyway.

Similarly, it should not be necessary to rebuild the Info documentation.

I have no idea what the elfio package is for or why you should need it.

Can you retry what happens if you do use the 'p' flag?

> *** very minor: consider changing ("checking for ELF binary format;
> result=no") to "checking for *ELFIO* binary format" in both
> \gawk5.1.1\*configure
> *[lines 8387-88] and \gawk5.1\*extension\configure* [lines 6245-46]

That's autconf-generated code, nothing I have any control over.

> Lastly, I didn't know I would have to *manually *build the PDF doc.

        cd doc
        make pdf

You will need various TeX packages installed for this to work.

I will see about adding something about this to the doc, but probably in
a more general section.

> So far, everything looks great running gawk programs. I have some test
> explorations of Gawk that I have been doing for the past 6 months, so I'll
> do a re-stress test with them and let you know if anything pops up that is
> more interesting than my install feedback.

Great, thanks.

> Thank you and all the very best
> to all of you who made this beta happen!!! -John Naman

You're welcome.

Arnold