Hi Paul & Jim,
Please see the report below from Nelson Beebe, attempting to build
https://www.skeeve.com/gawk/gawk-5.1.1a.tar.gz on recent MacOS.
This a test release, working towards a real release.
Can you pleae work directly with Nelson in terms of patches etc and
then let me know when Gnulib is updated?
Much thanks,
Arnold
> Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 15:15:08 -0600
> From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <be...@math.utah.edu>
> Subject: Re: Release spiral start
>
> I got successful builds and installations of gawk-5.1.1a on several
> systems, include CentOS 5/6/7/8, Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 7 (MIPS32),
> Oracle 8, Red Hat 8, and Solaris 10, but build attempts on macOS
> 10.13.6 and 10.15.7 with both Apple's /usr/bin/cc (really clang 12)
> and /usr/bin/gcc (clang 12 masquerading as gcc), plus on macOS
> 10.13.6, gcc-{4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}, have all failed.
>
> The killer code is the several instances of __nonnull ((1)) in
> support/malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c. They produce a cascade of errors
> that start like this:
>
> /usr/bin/gcc -DGAWK -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I"./.." -I. -I.. \
> -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -MT regex.o \
> -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o regex.o \
> regex.c && \
> mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
> In file included from regex.c:74:
> In file included from ./regexec.c:1368:
> ./malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:195:13: error: expected ')'
> __nonnull ((1))
> ^
> ./malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:195:12: note: to match this '('
> __nonnull ((1))
> ^
> ./malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:195:13: warning: type specifier missing,
> defaults to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int]
> __nonnull ((1))
> ^
> ./malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:195:1: warning: type specifier missing, defaults
> to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int]
> __nonnull ((1))
>
> ... many more ...
>
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