Re: Current trunk fails to build on MS-Windows

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

> I had a look at the missing script and it decides that the tool has a
> wrong version if it has exit status 63. This works for some tools like
> automake and bison.

How do they make this work?

> A quick check of the Gawk manual didn't reveal any
> way to check for the version when running.

Inside an awk script you can look at PROCINFO["version"]:

        if (! ("version" in PROCINFO) ||
            PROCINFO["version"] !~ /^[4-9]\./) {
                print("This version of awk/gawk won't cut it.") > "/dev/stderr"
                exit 1
        }

HTH,

Arnold