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diff --git a/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sco b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sco new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71494b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.sco @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +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 + + |