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Re: Date bug affecting gawk-3.0.4 on Cygwin32
- To: bug-gnu-utils at gnu dot org, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, dwyatt at sunflower dot com
- Subject: Re: Date bug affecting gawk-3.0.4 on Cygwin32
- From: Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve dot com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 08:56:43 +0200
Greetings. Re this:
> From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt@sunflower.com>
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 20:14:16 -0500
> Subject: Date bug affecting gawk-3.0.4 on Cygwin32
>
> Hi,
>
> I just built gawk-3.0.4 under Cygwin32. It passed all but two of the
> tests. Poundbang failed because 'gawk' is really 'gawk.exe' - no
> problem.
>
> Strftime() failed because Cygwin /bin/date generates 2 spaces
> before the year [Sat Oct 16 04:19:02 1999].
This is the key. What in fact is happening is that it is leaving
out the timezone, or rather, using an empty timezone name (compare the
output on a Unix system).
> Gawk's print and
> printf( "%s\n", $0 ) tend to truncate space separators to a single
> space.
Only when the record is modified, then it is rebuilt using just a
single space separator. Thus, when $3 is reassigned, the record
is rebuilt.
> But, under Cygwin strftime() outputs 2 spaces before the
> year as does /bin/date,
Gawk uses the system's strftime, if there is one, so this isn't suprising.
Here is a workaround for the test that should allow things to work
on cygwin. I don't have access to such right now, so I can't test it,
but this fix continues to work on my Linux system. This applies
to test/Makefile.in in the gawk dist.
In the meantime, it'd be good if the Cygnus folks can get their
code to return a timezone name.
Enjoy,
Arnold Robbins
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*** ../../gawk-3.0.4/test/Makefile.in Tue May 25 06:37:41 1999
--- Makefile.in Sun Oct 24 08:45:13 1999
***************
*** 217,223 ****
@LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL; LANG=C; export LANG; \
date | $(AWK) '{ $$3 = sprintf("%02d", $$3 + 0) ; \
print > "strftime.ok" ; \
! print strftime() > "'_$@'" }'
$(CMP) strftime.ok _$@ && rm -f _$@ strftime.ok || exit 0
litoct::
--- 217,224 ----
@LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL; LANG=C; export LANG; \
date | $(AWK) '{ $$3 = sprintf("%02d", $$3 + 0) ; \
print > "strftime.ok" ; \
! $$0 = strftime() ; $$NF = $$NF ; \
! print > "'_$@'" }'
$(CMP) strftime.ok _$@ && rm -f _$@ strftime.ok || exit 0
litoct::
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