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- Gawk on Atari has been compiled and tested using gcc compiler
- (versions 1.4 and 2.4.4) both with and without -mshort flag. Other
- compilers can be used but if sizeof(pointer) != sizeof(int) this
- code will not compile correctly with non-ANSI compiler (prototypes
- and library).
-
- Compiled executables were tested and with minor modifications, due
- to differences in environment and/or shell, succesfully completed
- at least the following tests:
- awf, pearls, resub, chem, swaplns, delete, messages, argarray,
- longwrds, getline, inftest, spiece2top, fstabplus, compare, arrayref,
- rs, fsrs, rand, fsbs, negexp, ugh2, asgext, anchgsub, splitargv,
- fieldwidths, ignorecase, posix, manyfiles, igncfs, lisp, regtest,
- awkpath, reparse, nfset.
-
- Nearly all of these test do not require any adjustments to run, but a
- modified test suite with a driving Makefile (for gulam) is available
- on a request from Michal Jaegermann, michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca,
- via e-mail.
-
- TOS and MiNT
- -----------
- Setup for Atari assumes that gawk will be used under TOS. In
- particular atari/system.c source is for a system function which nicely
- cooperates with gulam shell and pipes are simulated with temporary
- files. If you plan to run gawk under MiNT then you likely want a
- different system function and real pipes. For that purpose do not
- define SYSTEM_MISSING in a configuration file and do not define
- PIPES_SIMULATED in io.c file. Please note that in the later case gawk
- calls, in gawk_popen(), a function execl() with a hard-coded name of
- "/bin/sh". You want likely to change that to get a name and some
- arguments from an environment variable. This was not done here in
- order to avoid changes which may prove troublesome in a general
- distribution. Subdirectory ./atari contains also a file textrd.c with
- a bug fix for old versions of gcc libraries. This bug is currently
- fixed and the file is not used, but it is left as a convenience for
- those who may not updated yet their libraries.
-