Re: Current trunk fails to build on MS-Windows

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Eli.

> Does jrtangle need a newer Gawk?

Yes. 4.0 or newer.

I would expect that the texinfo tarball would include texindex.awk
ready to go, and not have to run jrtangle to produce it.

> It looks like jrtangle wants _both_ a new Gawk, and a Gawk that can
> invoke arbitrary Unix shell commands via the 'system' function.  And
> that I don't have, sorry (this is MS-Windows, remember?).  So I'm
> stuck; looks like jrtangle is not really portable to anything
> non-Posix, which is too bad.

Again, if the tarball includes texindex.awk already generated, we should
be fine.

> Any fire escapes out of this conundrum?  E.g., how about some more
> portable way of renaming the output of jrtangle, than just using ugly
> shell commands inside an Awk script?

What would that be?

Arnold