Re: [bug-gawk] gawkapi.c: assign_number

[jungle boogie]

Hi Arnold,
Thus said Arnold on Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:28:50 -0600
> > I suspect it may be due to your having an older version of texinfo.
>
> This is correct.  However, if you run the bootstrap.sh script
> before running configure and make (as is described in the documentation)
> then you should not need to run makeinfo at all.

ah! ./bootstrap.sh prevented the core dump

> What does `makeinfo --version'  print?  Mine is 6.1. If yours is 6.1
> or newer and you're getting a core dump, then it's a problem in the
> port of makeinfo to your system (which is truly wierd, as it's written
> in Perl).

I hope you're sitting down, mine is much older:
$ which makeinfo; makeinfo --version
/usr/bin/makeinfo
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8

Once the patch is committed, I'll git stash and re-test.


> Thanks,
>
> Arnold