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diff --git a/README_d/ChangeLog b/README_d/ChangeLog index 369b1360..2b88d423 100644 --- a/README_d/ChangeLog +++ b/README_d/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2017-10-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * README.os2: Updated with email from Andreas. + 2017-10-19 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * 4.2.0: Release tar ball made. diff --git a/README_d/README.os2 b/README_d/README.os2 index 7171daf4..c12f82db 100644 --- a/README_d/README.os2 +++ b/README_d/README.os2 @@ -1,22 +1,57 @@ -Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:19:37 +0200 -From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCning?= <andreas.buening@nexgo.de> -To: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> -Subject: Re: how alive is OS/2? +From andreas.buening@nexgo.de Thu Oct 19 15:34:16 2017 +Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 23:34:09 +0200 (CEST) +From: =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_B=C3=BCning?= <andreas.buening@nexgo.de> +To: arnold@skeeve.com +Message-ID: <1433289104.12656.1508448849820@mail.vodafone.de> +Subject: Re: gawk for OS/2 - any updates? -Hello! +Hello Arnold, -Aharon Robbins schrieb: +I'd like to inform you about the current state of compiling gawk on +OS/2: -> Is OS/2 still viable? Or can I look to start removing support for it -> also? +1. Compilation -I apologize for the late response. Yes, OS/2 is still "alive" in some sense. -At least, licenses are still sold but under the name "eComStation" (eCS) -instead of OS/2. The (only) distributor is a small company "Serenity Systems", -see www.ecomstation.com for details. +Running ./configure does work but -So I would be pleased if you don't remove the code during the next years. :-) +- I tried only running with --disable-nls, so with NLS I didn't test. +- Depending on the gcc version you use you may get linker errors. In + that case add 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -fgnu89-inline' to the configure options + (-O2 -g already is the default). -Thanks. -Andreas +2. Tests + +It is possible to run the built-in checks but many test results depend +on the shell being used. I recommend to use 'make -i check' to run +the tests because some failures might cause a immediate termination +of the make run. + +- If your shell uses \r\n linebreaks (in that case all tests fail) + then you have to run 'make -i check CMP=diff' to ignore the linebreak + differences at the test result comparison. +- Depending on the shell some tests might just hang forever. Press + Ctrl+C and/or Ctrl+Break until the tests continue. +- OS/2 can only load DLLs with filenames up to 8+3 bytes but gawk + creates three internal DLLs with longer names (e.g. filefuncs.dll, + revoutput.dll, revtwoway.dll). Thus, all tests trying to load + filefuncs.dll or the other two DLLs will fail. This is not a bug + of gawk. If you change e.g. the '@load filefuncs' directive to + '@load filefunc' in the according *.awk file then the tests will + succeed. +- The number of failling tests is currently around 50, less if your + shell uses \r\n linebreaks, more otherwise. + +Best wishes, + +Andreas Buening +====================================================== + +Sat Oct 21 21:01:49 IDT 2017 +============================ + +Fixes for loading extension libraries have since been included +in the git repo and will be part of 4.2.1. + +Arnold Robbins +arnold@skeeve.com |