Re: gawk 3.1.1l (beta) sigsegv

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:03:04AM -0000, John Leadeham wrote:
> Also, patch enquires whether should reverse out pre-applied patch.
> What was it diffed against?

it is against 3.1.1l tarball.  I use

bunzip2 -c .../gawk-3.1.1l-cvs_regex.patch.bz2 | patch -p1

and it applies without any problem.  (I've verified this just now.
Maybe you are missing the ``-p1''?  It's necessary, as I patch also
doc/Makefile.in and similar.)

> Will try this but first need to install new autoconf tools as
> patches seem to require 2.54 or later.

This should not be necessary.  The patch also patches the generated files,
so it should be enough to patch the source tree and then run usual

        ./configure
        make
        make check

If this doesn't work and make regenerates Makefile.in or configure, you
should do the following after the patch was applied (before running configure):

        touch aclocal.m4
        touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in
        touch configure

(waiting 10ms between the commands, to be most safe ;-)

This way autoconf nor automake should never be called.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal