Re: Gawk 3.2.1 on HP-UX

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Hi Mike,

> Your suggestion works.

Thanks, that's good to know.  Although I hope the next gawk will come
out soon and erase the issue.

> 1) define UNIX_STD=98 in the environment.
> 2) compile with the macro -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
> 3) with gcc, explicitly link with the object file unix98.o

I knew about (2), but I didn't know about (1) and (3).  My patch (the
big awkward one) is supposed enable multibyte support if both of these
are defined: (a) the multibyte functions and (b) the mbstate_t macro.

I tested it with -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 using the hp ansi c compiler and
the build logs say that multibyte support is turned on.  I gave up on
sorting the issues with gcc though.

> If you can tell me how get unix98.o used with the linker, I'll give it
> another try.

I took a wild flying leap with google on "unix98.o" and came up with:

  http://devrsrc1.external.hp.com/STKT/impacts/i332.html

Which says that you need to add /usr/lib/hpux32/unix98.o for a 32-bit
link or /usr/lib/hpux64/unix98.o for a 64-bit link.  But I am a bit
skeptical that these hp-supplied files would work with gcc; they are
probably meant for hp's compiler.

To add unix98.o to the link, try adding this to your configure command:

  configure LIBS=/usr/lib/hpux32/unix98.o

Michael C