Re: Current trunk fails to build on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:26:52 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >     Except that any modification will bust us.  This is still Free
> >     Software, right?
> >
> 
> A similar problem would be an update to configure.ac that couldn't be
> processed with older versions of autoconf. We can't check for versions
> of autoconf in the configure script, for example.

Then perhaps always check and display a non-fatal warning, to the
effect that "Gawk >= 4.0 not found; regenerating texindex.awk will be
impossible", or some such.  I've seen several packages do that.

> If it is not too hard to make it compatible with earlier versions of
> gawk or other versions of awk, of course it would be a boon to do so.

Aharon should tell, but AFAICS, it won't be easy: too many new
features are used by the script.