| 1 | README for GNU awk under BeOS
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| 2 | Last updated MCB, Tue Feb 6 10:15:46 GMT 2001
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| 3 |
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| 4 | BeOS port contact: Martin C Brown (mc@whoever.com)
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| 5 |
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| 6 | Building/Installing
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| 7 | --------------------------
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| 8 |
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| 9 | Since BeOS DR9, all the tools that you should need to build gawk are now
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| 10 | included with BeOS. The process is basically identical to the Unix process
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| 11 | of running configure and then make. Full instructions are given below:
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| 12 |
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| 13 | You can compile gawk under BeOS by extracting the standard sources,
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| 14 | and running the configure script. You MUST specify the location prefix
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| 15 | for the installation directory. Under BeOS DR9 and beyond the best
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| 16 | directory to use is /boot/home/config, so the configure command
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| 17 | would be:
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| 18 |
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| 19 | $ configure --prefix=/boot/home/config
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| 20 |
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| 21 | This will install the compiled application into /boot/home/config/bin,
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| 22 | which is already specified in the standard PATH.
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| 23 |
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| 24 | Once the configuration process has been completed, you can run make and
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| 25 | then make install:
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| 26 |
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| 27 | $ make
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| 28 | ....
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| 29 | $ make install
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| 30 |
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| 31 | Socket Notes
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| 32 | ----------------------
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| 33 |
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| 34 | Due to the socket implementation under BeOS not all of the features under
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| 35 | gawk's socket implementation may work properly. In particular:
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| 36 |
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| 37 | BeOS does not support a BSD SO_LINGER option, so sockets cannot remain
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| 38 | open after a close if data is still present on the incoming buffer.
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| 39 |
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| 40 | BeOS does not allow data to be read from a socket without removing the data
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| 41 | from the buffer (peek). If you need to use this feature in gawk, create a
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| 42 | separate input buffer and peek into your own copy, rather than the OS version.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | BeOS does not support RAW socket connections, only UDP or TCP.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | Note that these are BeOS Unix-layer compatibility problems, and only affect certain
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| 47 | aspects of network communication. Most socket based gawk scripts, and any scripts
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| 48 | that do not rely on sockets should work fine (excepting any other notes in this section).
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| 49 |
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| 50 | File Handle Notes
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| 51 | ---------------------------
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| 52 |
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| 53 | Expect the multiple file test (when running make check) to fail. The reason for this is
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| 54 | explained in the email shown below:
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| 55 |
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| 56 | -------------------------------------------------------
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| 57 | From mc@whoever.com Sun Jul 23 17:06:38 2000
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| 58 | Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 07:23:49 +0100
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| 59 | Subject: Re: gawk-3.0.5 results on BeOS
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| 60 | From: Martin C Brown <mc@whoever.com>
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| 61 | To: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>, <haible@ilog.fr>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | Arnold/Bruno,
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| 64 |
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| 65 | > This is a known BeOS problem. I am cc'ing the BeOS port person.
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| 66 | > Sorry I don't have a fix.
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| 67 |
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| 68 | This problem is directly related to the FOPEN_MAX/OPEN_MAX parameter used in
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| 69 | the stdio library by the BeOS. It seems that the BeOS strictly enforces this
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| 70 | number to the point that opening the 128th file causes all previously opened
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| 71 | files (except stdin/out/err) to be closed - hence the bad number.
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| 72 |
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| 73 | I've tried this outside of gawk and the same thing happens, so it's not a
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| 74 | gawk problem.
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| 75 |
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| 76 | I've spent the past few days trying to find a suitable workaround, but it's
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| 77 | obviously difficult trying to patch a kernel from the outside :))
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| 78 |
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| 79 | I'll be reporting this as a bug to Be shortly.
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| 80 |
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| 81 | MC
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| 82 |
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| 83 | --
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| 84 | Martin 'MC' Brown, mc@mcslp.com http://www.mcwords.com
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| 85 | Writer, Author, Consultant
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| 86 | 'Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something'
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