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@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ VAX C V2.x -- (version 2.3 or 2.4; older ones won't work); edit either GNU C -- edit vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms; the changes are different from those for VAX C V2.x, but equally straightforward. No changes to config.h should be needed. +DEC C -- edit vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms according to their comments. - Tested under VMS V5.3 and V5.4-2 using VAX C V3.2, V3.1, and V2.3 -and also GNU C V1.39. Should work without modifications for VMS V4.6 -and up. + Tested under VAX/VMS V5.5-1 using VAX C V3.2, GNU C 1.40 and 2.3. +Should work without modifications for VMS V4.6 and up. Installing GAWK on VMS: @@ -81,3 +81,28 @@ separated list of directory specifications. When defining it, the value should be quoted so that it retains a single translation, not a multi-translation RMS searchlist. + +Building and using GAWK under VMS POSIX: + + Ignore the instructions above, although vms/gawk.hlp should still +be made available in a help library. Make sure that the two scripts, +'configure' and 'mungeconf', are executable; use `chmod +x' on them if +necessary. Then execute the following two commands: + |psx> configure vms-posix + |psx> make awktab.c gawk +The first command will construct files "config.h" and "Makefile" out of +templates. The second command will compile and link 'gawk'. Due to +a 'make' bug in VMS POSIX 1.0 and V1.1, the file "awktab.c" must be +given as an explicit target or it will not be built and the final link +step will fail. Ignore the warning "Could not find lib m in lib list"; +it is harmless, caused by the Makefile's explicit use of -lm as a linker +option which is not needed under VMS POSIX. Under V1.1 (but not V1.0) +a problem with the yacc skeleton /etc/yyparse.c will cause a compiler +warning for awktab.c, followed by a linker warning about compilation +warnings in the resulting object module. These warnings can be ignored. + + Another 'make' bug interferes with exercising various components +of the test suite, but all the actual tests should execute correctly. +(The main exception being book/wordfreq, which gives different results +due to VMS POSIX 'sort' rather than to 'gawk'.) + |