Re: awk on Jensen....one more try.

["Rajiv Dighe" <rdighe nortelnetworks com>]

Fellow Jenseners,

    I have managed to get gawk working on my jensen by following 
these steps. Again, I don't yet know why it was not working. All I 
have managed to do is find out a workaround.
1. make sure you have Compaq linux compiler for alpha(ccc) 
installed and more importantly libcpml.
2. after running configure, edit top level Makefile by hand to do 
following changes..
   a. change CC options from '-g -O2' to '-g -O0' ( i.e. disable 
optimizations.
   b. also edit Makefile to use libcpml instead of libm( -lcpml 
instead of -lm )
3. fire off 'make'

After this 'make test' should work perfectly fine on your Jensen. I 
am doing 'make menuconfig' on the kernel source as I am writing 
this..life is good ;)

--Rajiv

On 30 Oct 99, at 12:28, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> > 
> > Some one please help me confirm this..I can make an ass of 
> > myself only so many times :(
> 
> I do not happen to have Jensen around nor precisely your version of gawk
> (3.0.3 and some test versions) but I do not see any problems with this
> example you are trying to run.
> 
> > 
> > [gawk-3.0.4]$ ./gawk -f test/swaplns.awk swaplns.in
> > at this stage gawk is trying to execute floor(1.0)
> ...
> > 
> > I have no clue why it would get stuck in floor function.
> 
> Did you try to reproduce this hang on some very simple program
> using just floor(); without all this gawk machinery around?
> Maybe you just uncovered a bug with floor on Jensen?  Although
> it is a bit strange that nobody reported something of that sort
> up to now.
> 
> BTW - did you try to recompile gawk on your box?  One of targets
> there is 'make test'.
> 
>    Michal