Re: gawk 3.1.1l (beta) sigsegv

[John Leadeham]

> 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
> 

Thanks. Too late -- I have updated.

The new regex files appear to have fixed the core dump problem.

John.