Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib

[Manuel Collado]

El 11/05/2022 a las 17:39, Andrew J. Schorr escribió:
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 05:35:24PM +0200, Manuel Collado wrote:
> > El 11/05/2022 a las 14:53, Andrew J. Schorr escribió:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 01:18:20PM +0200, Manuel Collado wrote:
> > > > The first attempt choked on the lack of a recent version of
> > > > autotools on MinGw.
> > >
> > > I'm confused by this. The package tarballs should not require autotools,
> > > because the configure script and Makefile.in templates have already been
> > > generated and are inside the tarball. Why is autotools of any version
> > > needed on MinGW?
> >
> > I need to verify what exactly was done in the first attempt. The
> > configure script is generated by a specific version of Autotools. I
> > assume that running configure requires some pieces of the autotools
> > machinery, probably the .m4 macros, which must be version compatible
> > with the autotools version used to generate configure.
> >
> > Or is configure fully standalone and do not require anything else?
>
> Yes -- it should be fully standalone and not require any autotools present on
> the system. The distribution packages should be self-contained, except for of
> course requiring make and a shell and a C/C++ compiler and the libraries that
> it's linking against.

Ok. I was wrong. Not a configure issue.

But porting to Windows required patching some files used by autotools. 
In particular "test/test.makefile", included by "test/Makefile.am". And 
then autotools had to be rerun to regenerate "configure" and "Makefile.in".

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$ diff original/gawk-mpfr-1.1.0/test/test.makefile 
code/gawk-mpfr-1.1.0/test/test.makefile
1c1
< CMP = cmp
---
> CMP = diff -qa --strip-trailing-cr
25c25
< AWK = LC_ALL=$${GAWKLOCALE:-C} LANG=$${GAWKLOCALE:-C} 
AWKLIBPATH=../.libs:`$(GAWKPROG) 'BEGIN {print ENVIRON["AWKLIBPATH"]}'` 
PATH=$(GEBINPFX)$$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(GELIBPFX)$$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(GELIBPFX)$$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH $(VALGRIND) $(GAWKPROG)
---
> AWK = LC_ALL=$${GAWKLOCALE:-C} LANG=$${GAWKLOCALE:-C} 
AWKLIBPATH=../.libs PATH=$(GEBINPFX)$$PATH 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(GELIBPFX)$$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(GELIBPFX)$$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH $(VALGRIND) $(GAWKPROG)
37c37
<       for i in _* ; \
---
>       @for i in _* ; \
47c47
<       done | more
---
>       done | (more || less)
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Regards.
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