Re: [bug-gawk] _ function (gettext) broken in gawk 4.2.0

[arnold]

Adding it to the test suite is a good idea. I'll move forward with it.

Thanks!

Arnold

(3.1.5 is >= 10 years old; breaking things once a decade isn't
so terrible, is it?  <joke>)

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Arnold,
>
> > Thanks for the report.  This has been fixed in the current code
> > base. The dev team is spiralling in on a 4.2.1 release for the
> > near future.
>
> Glad to hear this.
>
> This is the second time this integration test between gettext and gawk
> failed; the first one was in version 3.1.5.
>
> How about if this integration test gets integrated into the gawk test suite,
> so that the gawk maintainers will notice a failure before a release, not
> after the release is already out?
>
> Find it attached. Feel free to adapt it to the test environment of gawk.
>
> > The change actually had to do with the fact that optimization became
> > the default in gawk 4.2.0. If you try gawk 4.1.4 with the -O flag,
> > you'll get the same misbehavior.
>
> One more reason to add it to the gawk test suite! I would never have
> attempted to use the -O option (I did not even know that it exists),
> but you and your collaborators surely occasionally run the entire gawk
> test suite with and without -O.
>
> Bruno