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Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 22:07:21 +0300

> Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 14:48:59 -0400
> From: "Andrew J. Schorr" <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
> Cc: arnold@skeeve.com, mcollado2011@gmail.com, bug-gawk@gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 09:33:10PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > I have changed the help string to say:
> > > 
> > >   --with-gawk-program=PATH
> > >                           Use gawk program binary in PATH for running the 
> > > test
> > >                           suite, e.g. /usr/bin/gawk
> > > 
> > > Is that clear enough?
> > 
> > Yes, thanks.  I still suggest not to use PATH here, especially since
> > "binary in PATH" could cause someone to thing this is a
> > colon-separated list of directories where the system looks for
> > executables
> 
> I gave an example to avoid any doubt. But which word do you prefer to PATH?
> FILENAME?

FILENAME is good.  Or you could use PROG.



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