Re: [bug-gawk] gawk 5.0.1 patch to allow *valid* awk variable names to be assigned to SYMTAB

[arnold]

Hi. I've been offline for a few days ...

<address@hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for your understanding, guidance, and genuine consideration of my
> needs.

You're welcome.  I appreciate serious users and try to help them
as much as I can.

As per the followup mails, the gawkextlib project is where we like
new extensions to go.

If you want to just have a private copy of your own extension in the
gawk extension directory, you can do that. You'll need the autotools
installed.  Then add the source file and edit extension/Makefile.am
to include your extension in what gets built. It's mostly copy/paste/edit
and should be straightforward to figure out.

        ./configure && make
        # add new source files
        # edit extension/Makefile.am
        make

and you should more or less be set. You can then 'make install'
and your new extension should be installed with the others.

HTH,

Arnold