Re: gawk 3.1.0 DEFPATH problem

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Aharon Robbins) writes:

|> diff -cr gawk-3.1.1/Makefile.am gawk-am/Makefile.am
|> *** gawk-3.1.1/Makefile.am   Thu Feb 21 10:34:21 2002
|> --- gawk-am/Makefile.am      Sun Apr  7 17:44:43 2002
|> ***************
|> *** 115,122 ****
|>   # Special stuff for OS/2, remove after switch to autoconf 2.5x
|>   PATH_SEPARATOR = @PATH_SEPARATOR@
|>   
|> ! # stuff for compiling gawk/pgawk
|> ! DEFPATH="\".$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(datadir)\""
|>   
|>   DEFS= -DDEFPATH=$(DEFPATH) -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGAWK 
-DLOCALEDIR="\"$(datadir)/locale\""
|>   
|> --- 115,125 ----
|>   # Special stuff for OS/2, remove after switch to autoconf 2.5x
|>   PATH_SEPARATOR = @PATH_SEPARATOR@
|>   
|> ! # Set autoconf Makefile.in variables correctly
|> ! libexecdir = @libexecdir@/awk
|> ! 
|> ! # stuff for compiling gawk/pgawk, note use of pkgdatadir
|> ! DEFPATH="\".$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(pkgdatadir)\""

Unless I miss something, this means that the awk library resides in a
directory ending in "gawk" (pkgdatadir) whereas the subsidary programs
reside in a directory ending in "awk" (libexecdir).  It would perhaps be
preferable to make this consistent.  Also, at least in gawk 3.1.0, the
makefile in the awklib directory still has an explicit reference to
$(datadir)/awk that should probably be changed to $(pkgdatadir).

Andreas.

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