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- From: gb@mir.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Guenter Becker)
- Subject: gawk-2.13 on sco v3.2.2
- Message-ID: <1e7uoiINNl85@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:56:18 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Good morning,
-
- when installing gawk-2.13 on sco v3.2.2 with cc, a compiler error occurred
- in eval.c, which could be tracked down to a macro definition in gawk.h for
- 'force_number', which apparently also causes msc5.1 under dos to bomb. A
- fix given in gawk.h using a variable called '_msc51bug' also works for
- sco.
-
- To fix, either change gawk.h appropriately, or add -DDEBUG to the compiler
- options, which causes a much simpler form of this macro to be used, which
- works.
-
- Let me add, that, after successful installation, gawk works fine, fast,
- and on lines of several kbytes length, which is beyond the capabilities of
- the awk included by sco.
-
- G. Becker
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