3 This is GNU Awk 3.0.6. It should be upwardly compatible with the Bell
4 Labs research version of awk. It is almost completely compliant with
5 the 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.)
7 Patches 1 through 5 just fix bugs -- see NEWS and ChangeLog for details.
9 See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
11 Known problems are given in the PROBLEMS file. Work to be done is
12 described briefly in the FUTURES file. Verified ports are listed in
13 the PORTS file. Changes in this version are summarized in the NEWS file.
14 Please read the LIMITATIONS and ACKNOWLEDGMENT files.
16 Read the file POSIX for a discussion of how the standard says comparisons
17 should be done vs. how they really should be done and how gawk does them.
19 To format the documentation with TeX, use at least version 2.151 of
20 texinfo.tex. There is a usable copy of texinfo.tex in the doc directory.
22 The Info file now comes with the distribution.
24 The man page is up to date.
28 Check whether there is a system-specific README file for your system
29 under the `README_d' directory. If there's something there that you
30 should have read and didn't, and you bug me about it, I'm going to yell
35 If you have neither bison nor yacc, use the awktab.c file here. It was
36 generated with bison, and has no proprietary code in it. (Note that modifying
37 awk.y without bison or yacc will be difficult, at best. You might want
38 to get a copy of bison from the FSF too.)
40 If you have an MS-DOS or OS/2 system, use the stuff in the `pc' directory.
41 Similarly, there are separate directories for Ataris, Amigas, and VMS.
43 Appendix B of The GNU Awk User's Guide discusses configuration in detail. The
44 configuration process is now based on Autoconf, so the whole business
45 should be considerably simpler than it was in gawk 2.X.Y.
47 After successful compilation, do 'make check' to run a small test
48 suite. There should be no output from the 'cmp' invocations except in
49 the cases where there are small differences in floating point values,
50 and possibly in the case of strftime. Several of the tests ignore
51 errors on purpose; those are not a problem. If there are other
52 differences, please investigate and report the problem.
56 The 'doc' directory contains a recent version of texinfo.tex, which will be
57 necessary for printing the manual. Use `make dvi' to get a DVI file from
58 the manual. In the `doc' directory, use `make postscript' to get a PostScript
59 version of the manual.
61 BUG REPORTS AND FIXES (Un*x systems):
63 Please coordinate changes through Arnold Robbins. In particular, see
64 the section in the manual on reporting bugs. Note that comp.lang.awk is
65 about the worst place to post a gawk bug report. Please, use the mechanisms
66 outlined in the manual.
69 INTERNET: arnold@gnu.org
71 BUG REPORTS AND FIXES (non-Unix ports):
78 hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
82 rankin@eql.caltech.edu
86 michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca