RE: Windows Octave compilation

[John D]

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From: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 3:56 PM
To: John D; 'Tatsuro MATSUOKA'; address@hidden
Cc: 'PhilipNienhuis'; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Windows Octave compilation

On 07/11/2014 03:52 PM, John D wrote:

 > Maybe :)
 > I think the easiest option is to not have it as a dependency for native
> mingw as native mingw has its own awk anyway.
 > There are a few other build packages we are already doing that for.

The reason for adding more build- packages was so that we control exactly
what versions of the tools are used to build everything else. 
But if it is causing too much trouble, then I guess it would be OK to remove
it.

jwe

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The issue at the moment (or at least one of them) can be illustrated by
this:

** mingw native awk
$ echo dir\\file.txt | awk /i/
dir\file.txt

** our compiled awk
$ echo dir\\file.txt | awk /i/
awk: cmd. line:1: C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/i/
awk: cmd. line:1:  ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:2: C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/i/
awk: cmd. line:2:                     ^ unexpected newline or end of string


configure uses awk a lot ...