[bug-gawk] gawk extensions

[Miriam English]

Hi,

I tried sending this (below) to address@hidden who posted the message 
about gawk extensions here a few days ago, but the message bounced, so I 
figure he might be watching this list. Also others might be interested.

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I saw your extensions for gawk you posted a few days ago and thought it 
was a wonderful idea so I downloaded it and tried to compile.

Here is some feedback:

Firstly 'autoreconf -if' gave the error:
configure.ac:44: warning: macro `AM_PROG_AR' not found in library
It continued on anyway, but then failed on the error:
libtoolize: `/usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess' does not exist.

"config.guess" does not exist at that location on my machine, however it 
does exist elsewhere (in /usr/share/misc). Odd that I haven't had that 
error before, but I copied it to the destination which gawk extensions 
wants and tried again.

This time, after the same warning about macro AM_PROG_AR it gets 
further, but fails on:
libtoolize: `/usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub' does not exist.

So I copy that to the the location the program expects and try again. 
After the same warning about macro `AM_PROG_AR' it gets quite a bit 
further, but still fails. This time because it can't find AM_PROG_AR.

I noticed it has built the configure script so I tried it just in case. 
I figured it probably wouldn't work, but what the hell, right? 
Everything was looking good for a while, though it said
/mnt/big/compile/awk_extensions/build-aux/missing: No such file or directory
which is weird, because the file is exactly where it says it expects it 
to be. But it continues anyway, for quite a way, until finally it fails 
with:
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'

If it helps, my computer's uname -a returns:
Linux biglin 2.6.33.2 #1 SMP Thu May 27 10:56:32 EST 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

I hope this helps.

Best wishes,

    - Miriam

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