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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.ultrix b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.ultrix new file mode 100644 index 0000000..917f02f --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.ultrix @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +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. + |