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| -rw-r--r-- | README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sco | 67 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sony | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README_d/OBSOLETE/README.ultrix | 46 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README_d/OBSOLETE/README.yacc | 10 |
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diff --git a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.FIRST b/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.FIRST deleted file mode 100644 index 4957cb32..00000000 --- a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.FIRST +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -Sat Feb 18 23:07:55 EST 1995 - -Starting with 2.15.6, gawk will preserve the value of NF and $0 for -the last record read into the END rule(s). This is important to you -if your program uses - - print - -in an END rule to mean - - print "" - -(i.e., print nothing). Examine your awk programs carefully to make sure -that they use `print ""' instead of `print', otherwise you will get -strange results. - -If you send me email about this, without having read this -file, I will yell at you. - -Arnold Robbins -arnold@skeeve.com diff --git a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.linux b/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.linux deleted file mode 100644 index 9ba15c51..00000000 --- a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.linux +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -Thu Apr 17 14:41:17 EDT 1997 - -Some Linux systems, notably RedHat systems through RedHat 4.1, have the -symbolic links for /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout messed up. Specifically, -/dev/stdin is linked to ../proc/self/fd/1 and /dev/stdout to -../proc/self/fd/0. This is backwards. This causes strange behavior -when using those files from within gawk. - -Removing and redoing the symlinks fixes the problem. It is fixed in -post-4.1 RedHat Linux. - -Arnold Robbins -arnold@skeeve.com - -Sun Aug 3 15:07:06 EDT 1997 - -As of version 3.1 of gawk, this is no longer a problem, since gawk now -completely interprets the special file names internally. - -Arnold Robbins -arnold@skeeve.com diff --git a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sco b/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sco deleted file mode 100644 index 71494b77..00000000 --- a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sco +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -Tue Dec 24 22:41:39 EST 1996 - -SCO's awk has a -e option which is similar to gawk's --source option, -allowing you to specify the script anywhere on the awk command line. - -This can be a problem, since gawk will install itself as `awk' in -$(bindir). If this is ahead of /bin and /usr/bin in the search path, -several of SCO's scripts that use -e will break, since gawk does not -accept this option. - -The solution is simple. After doing a `make install', do: - - rm -f /usr/local/bin/awk # or wherever it is installed. - -This removes the `awk' symlink so that SCO's programs will continue -to work. - -If you complain to me about this, I will fuss at you for not having -done your homework. - -Arnold Robbins -arnold@skeeve.com - ---------------------------- -Date: 14 Oct 1997 12:17 +0000 -From: Leigh Hebblethwaite <LHebblethwaite@transoft.com> -To: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu - -I've just built gawk 3.0.3 on my system and have experienced a problem -with the routine pipeio2.awk in the test suite. However the problem -appears to be in the tr command rather than gawk. - -I'm using SCO Open Server 5. On the version I have there appears to be -a problem with tr such that: - - tr [0-9]. ........... - -does NOT translate 9s. This means that the output from: - - echo " 5 6 7 8 9 10 11" | tr [0-9]. ........... - -is: - - . . . . 9 .. .. - -This problem causes the pipeio2 test to be reported as a failure. - -Note that the following variation on the tr command works fine: - - tr 0123456789. ........... - -For your info the details of my system are summarised by the out put -of the uname -X command, which is: - -System = SCO_SV -Node = sgscos5 -Release = 3.2v5.0.2 -KernelID = 96/01/23 -Machine = Pentium -BusType = EISA -Serial = 4EC023443 -Users = 5-user -OEM# = 0 -Origin# = 1 -NumCPU = 1 - - diff --git a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sony b/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sony deleted file mode 100644 index 29ba875e..00000000 --- a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sony +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -Sun Jan 19 23:13:50 EST 1997 - -> Machine: SONY NWS-5000 (MIPS r4000) -> OS : NEWS-OS 4.2.1 (4.3BSD compatible) -> This OS doesn't have `uname' -> Tools : gcc-2.7.2.1, bison-1.25, cmp-2.7, bash-2.0 - -This system has the same problem with the test/tweakfld case that Ultrix MIPS -has. See the README.ultrix file for details. - -Arnold Robbins -arnold@skeeve.com diff --git a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.ultrix b/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.ultrix deleted file mode 100644 index 917f02f5..00000000 --- a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.ultrix +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -When compiling on DECstation running Ultrix 4.0 a command 'cc -c -O -regex.c' is causing an infinite loop in an optimizer. Other sources -compile fine with -O flag. If you are going to use this flag either -add a special rule to Makefile for a compilation of regex.c, or issue -'cc -c regex.c' before hitting 'make'. - -From: Steve Simmons <scs@wotan.iti.org> -Subject: Non-bug report on gawk 2.13.2 -To: david@cs.dal.ca, arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us -Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1991 13:45:38 -0300 - -Just fyi -- it passes tests with flying colors under Ultrix 4.2. The -README.ultrix file applies more than ever. You might want to add -these paragraphs to it: - - As of Ultrix 4.2 the optimise works for regex.c, but you must give an - additional switch to get everything optimised. Using '-Olimit 1500' - does the job. Without the switch gawk will compile and run correctly, - but you will get complaints about lost optimisations in builtin.c, - awk.tab.c and regex.c. - -From: Arnold Robbins <arnold@math.utah.edu> -Date: Sun Sep 8 07:05:07 EDT 1996 - -On Decstations using Ultrix 4.3, the tweakfld test case will fail. It -appears that routines in the math library return very small but non-zero -numbers in cases where most other systems return zero. - -From: Juergen Kahrs <jkahrs@castor.atlas.de> -Date: Wed Jan 17 13:15:34 MET 2001 - -On Ultrix 4.3, configure like this: - - ./configure --disable-nls - -In custom.h, we defined HAVE_MKTIME in order to avoid a linker error. -If you compile with - - make check - -every test will pass, except for the badargs test: - - *** Error code 1 (ignored) - -This shouldnt cause problems. - diff --git a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.yacc b/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.yacc deleted file mode 100644 index 6332986b..00000000 --- a/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.yacc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -Sat Jan 28 22:07:17 EST 1995 - -Some older versions of yacc (notably Ultrix's) have limits on the depth -of the parse stack. This only shows up when gawk is dealing with deeply -nested control structures, such as those in `awf'. - -The problem goes away if you use either bison or Berkeley yacc. - -Arnold Robbins -arnold@skeeve.com |