msys gawk
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Many computer users need to manipulate text files: extract and then
operate on data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest,
make changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, and
so on. To write a program to do these things in a language such as C or
Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may take many lines of
code. The job is easy with awk, especially the GNU implementation: Gawk.

The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that
makes it possible to handle many data-reformatting jobs with just a few
lines of code. 

This version has been modified and compiled for use in the MSYS
environment. It should be installed into the / == /usr directory, which
is usually but not always, C:\msys\1.0.

Runtime requirements:
  msysCORE-1.0.13-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
  libintl-0.17-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-8
  libiconv-1.13.1-2-msys-dll-2

Build requirements (these, or newer)
  MSYS toolchain
    binutils-2.19.51-3-msys-1.0.13-bin
    gcc-3.4.4-3-msys-1.0.13-bin
    w32api-3.14-3-msys-1.0.12-dev
    msysCORE-1.0.13-2-msys-1.0.13-dev

  Devel Tools and Dependent Libraries
    autoconf-2.65-1-msys-1.0.13-bin
    automake-1.11.1-1-msys-1.0.13-bin
    libiconv-1.13.1-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    libiconv-1.13.1-2-msys-1.0.13-dev
    gettext-0.17-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    gettext-0.17-2-msys-1.0.13-dev
    libgettextpo-0.17-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-0
    libtool-2.2.7a-2-msys-1.0.13-bin

  MSYS Environment
    perl-5.6.1_2-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    libcrypt-1.1_1-3-msys-1.0.13-dll-0
    libgdbm-1.8.3-3-msys-1.0.13-dll-3
    zlib-1.2.3-2-msys-1.0.13-dll
    coreutils-5.97-2-msys-1.0.11-bin
    make-3.81-2-msys-1.0.11-bin
    bash-3.1.17-2-msys-1.0.11-bin
    tar-1.22-1-msys-1.0.11-bin
    xz-4.999.9beta_20100401-1-msys-1.0.13-bin
    bzip2-1.0.5-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    gzip-1.3.12-1-msys-1.0.11-bin
    liblzma-4.999.9beta_20100401-1-msys-1.0.13-dll-1
    libbz2-1.0.5-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-1
    file-5.04-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    grep-2.5.4-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    sed-4.2.1-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    gawk-3.1.7-1-msys-1.0.11-bin
    cvs-1.12.13-1-msys-1.0.11-bin
 
Canonical homepage:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/ 

Canonical download:
  http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/

License:
  GPLv3

Language:
  C

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Build instructions:
  unpack gawk-3.1.7-2-msys-1.0.13-src.tar.lzma
  ./msys-build-gawk gzip-3.1.7.tar.gz

This will create:
  gawk-3.1.7-2-msys-1.0.13-src.tar.lzma
  gawk-3.1.7-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma
  gawk-3.1.7-2-msys-1.0.13-lang.tar.lzma
  gawk-3.1.7-2-msys-1.0.13-doc.tar.lzma
  gawk-3.1.7-2-msys-1.0.13-lic.tar.lzma

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Test suite results

This section of this document is updated with each new release.
No history is maintained here.

libsigsegv testsuits: all five tests skipped

6 TESTS FAILED (of 271)
space:     different error message
strftime:  MSYS strftime doesn't support %Z
fmtspcl:   MSYS bug in printing NaN value
lc_num1:   MSYS printf doesn't support %' (comma) specification
mbfw1:     MSYS and multibyte chars? are you kidding?
mbprintf1: ditto

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Port Notes:

----------  gawk-3.1.7-2 -- 2010 Apr 16 -----------
* Rebuild with latest msys-gcc-3.x compiler, against msys 1.0.13
  and DLL versions of libintl and libiconv.
* Split i18n files into separate -lang package

----------  gawk-3.1.7-1 -- 2009 Aug 11 -----------
* First release of gawk for msys using new packaging standard.