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Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib


From: Andrew J. Schorr
Subject: Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 15:15:26 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:07:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

PROG it is.

I guess we may potentially need a --with-gawkextlib-include-dir option as well,
but let's see how things play out.

Thanks,
Andy



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