Re: gawk problem during build, and patches

[Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com>]

Ed Osinski <osinski@cs.nyu.edu> typed:
:While building zsh 3.0.6, I got the following:
:gawk -f ./rlimits.awk /usr/include/sys/resource.h > rlimits.h
:gcc -c -I.. -I. -I. -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=3D64 -DHAVE_CON=
:FIG_H -Wall -Wno-implicit -Wmissing-prototypes -O2 builtin.c
:In file included from builtin.c:3679:
:rlimits.h:7: parse error at null character
:-----------------------------------------------------------
:signames.h had similar problems.  The culprits were lines like
:             printf("\t%c%s%c,\n", 034, lim[i], 034)

Note: 3.1.6 uses ``34'' not ``034''.  The reasoning behind 034 escapes
me at the moment; I don't think it was random but I can't find
anything about it in my zsh email from 1996 and I don't think we were
using RCS back then so who knows?
Also note my comment at the top of the file: \" can't be used generally
because some systems barf on it.

sed 's/034/34/g' might have been quicker :-)

:in the .awk files.  Somehow, the 034 was not being interpreted as a
:quote (").  I have gawk 3.0.4 installed, but I see that I configured
:it with the --enable-non-decimal-data switch.  I assume this means
:that 034 is taken to be an octal number, which is not intended.  I
:changed the .awk files to just use \" in the format string instead of
:%c and a parameter.  I've included patches below.  (I'm not a
:subscriber to the list, so if there are any problems, please send me
:email.)

Regards,
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