[PATCH] GCC bootstrap failure on cygwin is gawk 3.1.2 bug!

[Roger Sayle]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Neil Booth wrote:
> I'm unsure what to do now.  I'd like to say "don't use gawk 3.1.2".

Hi Neil,

That might not be too unreasonable.  The cygwin folks have done an
impressive job and already have a corrected package, gawk-3.1.2-3,
available for download from their site.  Hence, we can just tell the
cygwin folks to update their distribution and everyone else to just
avoid 3.1.2 until gawk 3.1.3 or 3.2 comes out.

The other option is to consider options.h and options.c as checked-in
generated files that are only regenerated in maintainer mode, much
like we do with yacc/bison/flex/cperf/autoconf generated files.  If
anyone "drops" a new front-end into the tree, they should be required
to have maintainer quality tools.


The combination of telling people to avoid gawk-3.1.2 and only using
it in maintainer mode, reflects the current situation with autoconf,
where GCC also can't be used with the latest stable release of a GNU
package, but this constraint only affects maintainers.

Just a suggestion.

Roger
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