Re: [bug-gawk] Gawk 4.1.0 released

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

> >> The usual GNU build incantation should be used:
> >>
> >>     tar -xpvzf gawk-4.1.0.tar.gz
> >>     cd gawk-4.1.0
> >>     ./configure && make && make check
> >>
> >> Bug reports should be sent to address@hidden
> >>
> >> Enjoy!
> >>
> >> Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers)
> >> address@hidden
> >
> > For the sake of the exercise, I followed the above steps and ended up with:
> >
> > (...)
> > gcc  -g -O2 -DNDEBUG   -o gawk array.o awkgram.o builtin.o cint_array.o
> > command.o debug.o dfa.o eval.o ext.o field.o floatcomp.o gawkapi.o
> > gawkmisc.o getopt.o getopt1.o int_array.o io.o main.o mpfr.o msg.o
> > node.o profile.o random.o re.o regex.o replace.o str_array.o symbol.o
> > version.o    -lreadline  -lm -lm
> > Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
> >    "_history_list", referenced from:
> >        _serialize in debug.o
> >        _do_save in debug.o
> > ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[2]: *** [gawk] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
>
> A small update:
>
> The above error disappears when adding the configure option 
> "--with-mpfr=/opt/local"

This beats me. I have a very old PPC mac book, and I think MPFR is
in /usr/local and things just work, but I always build from the git repo.

Arnold