Changeset fa21b3d for chapter06/gawk.xml

Timestamp:

01/06/2006 01:59:08 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@…>

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Children:

abf1f62

Parents:

60e34b5

Message:

Initial support of UTF-8. Thanks Alexander Patrakov.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7245 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/gawk.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/gawk.xml

@@ -29 +29 @@
 <title>Installation of Gawk</title>
 
-<para>Patch Gawk to fix a bug which causes it to segfault when invoked on a
-non-existent file:</para>
+<para>Under some circumstances, Gawk-&gawk-version;  attempts to free a chunk
+of memory that was not allocated. This bug is fixed by the following patch:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gawk-segfault-patch;</userinput></screen>
@@ -38 +38 @@
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>The configure script doesn't detect some functionality correctly.  The
-following commands correct this problem:</para>
+<para>Due to a bug in the <command>configure</command> script, Gawk fails
+to detect certain aspects of locale support in Glibc. This
+bug leads to, e.g., Gettext testsuite failures. Work around this issue
+by appending the missing macro definitions to <filename>config.h</filename>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>echo "#define HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET 1" >> config.h
-echo "#define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1" >> config.h</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;config.h &lt;&lt;"EOF"
+<literal>#define HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET 1
+#define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Compile the package:</para>