Re: MSYS2 build script patches for gawk 4.2.1+

[arnold]

Thanks. 

Some parts of the gawk-4.2.1-msysize.patch should go upstream to gnulib.
The other stuff could be imported into the gawk dist if the maintainer
is willing to contribute.

I will contact him off list, and also the gnulib people.

Arnold

<address@hidden> wrote:

> This is just an FYI for the gawk development team.
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> I don't know if you are aware of the set of build script patches created by
> the MSYS2 project that enables gawk 4.2.1+ (and specifically 5.0.1) to
> configure and make and make check cleanly under MSYS2 (not under MINGW64,
> just in the MSYS2 POSIX environment).
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> https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/tree/master/gawk
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> The patch file there is named gawk-4.2.1-msysize.patch.  The patches mainly
> seem to add an "msys*" option in several build scripts just after the
> "cygwin*" system identity alternatives.
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> Some of the patches seem to already be present in 5.0.1 (patch complains
> that some of the changes are already present), but not all.  I manually made
> the patches listed where not already done in 5.0.1 and indeed gawk then
> configures and makes and make checks cleanly (outside of tests that are
> known to fail in the MSYS2 environment like mbprint5), including readline
> and mpfr functionality and rest of the standard extensions sub-directory.
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> With these patches the extension libraries build as *.dll's rather than as
> *.so or *.a libraries and everything Just Works on my Win10 system.
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> The binary gawk 5.0.1 that is available via pacman in the MSYS2 environment
> does seem to work quite well there, as does my manually built version, at
> least in my limited personal testing.
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> HTH
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> Peter
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