Re: Fwd: Compiling xgawk-3.1.6-20080101

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:17:19PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > From: Internet Frame, sa de cv <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:52 AM
> > Subject: Compiling xgawk-3.1.6-20080101
> > To: address@hidden
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Trying to compile xgawk on fedora 13 i686 i get the following after
> > executing *make chek*
> 
> It looks like things are pretty reasonable and xgawk is usable, but
> since I have not done anything with xgawk, you should ask on the xgawk
> mailing list for a bettern confirmation.
> 
> If you don't need xgawk's special features, then I recommend using
> the current released gawk, 3.1.8, or what's in the gawk-stable CVS.

FYI, building xgawk on Fedora 13 should be pretty easy:

   env PATH=$PATH:. rpmbuild -tb xgawk-3.1.6-20080101.tar.gz

(the PATH nonsense is due to a bug in a Makefile that is now patched
in CVS).  What make check errors did you get?

Regards,
Andy