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gawk 3.1.5

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4On real Itanium systems, builds with GCC are fine. If you're using the
5Intel compiler `ecc', you need:
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7 CC=ecc ./configure && make all check install CFLAGS='-g -Drestrict='
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9Tue Apr 16 13:55:15 IDT 2002
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11The current version of the IA-64 environment builds gawk without any problems.
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13Wed Apr 25 17:17:01 IDT 2001
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16The Intel IA-64 emulation environment that sits on top of 32-bit Linux
17has problems. Gawk does not work on it.
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191. The `sgicc' compiler lies to `configure' and pretends it's gcc. But it
20really isn't, and several things don't work.
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222. Even if used with gcc, the executable doesn't run; somehow quoted
23strings don't stay as one argument to gawk, which is, of course,
24disastrous.
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263. It's flaky; initially `configure' wouldn't even get past the getpgrp
27test. Then later it would.
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29Arnold Robbins
30[email protected]
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