Re: gawk 3.0.4 does not work for gtk+-1.2.8

[eduard epi t-online de (Peter Bornemann)]

On 24 Jun 2000, Owen Taylor wrote:

> I can't reproduce it here, though there is one bug report on
> bugs.gnome.org that might be the same thing, involving a compilation
> failure on SuSE 6.4.
>            ^^^^^^^^^
> Things work perfectly here with awk-3.0.4. (What operating system
> and/or distribution are you running?)

Aha, I am running the same distro and version. Maybe, there is a
problem with theit awk.

> You should be able to work around the problem by configuring (a clean copy
> of) GTK+ with --disable-rebuilds. 

Thank You. I think for now I will stick to old awk. Probably I will
download awk and rebuild it. If there is a bug in awk, as I would
guess (see below), this should be fixed.

> 
> If you want to help diagnose what is going on, the problem is with
> the gtk/maketypes.awk script. So if you change to the gtk/ directory
> and try running:
> 
>  awk -f maketypes.awk gtk.defs macros
>  awk -f maketypes.awk gtk.defs entries
>  awk -f maketypes.awk gtk.defs variables
> 

Here is the result fo "awk -f maketypes.awk gtk.defs macros"
1. with SuSE-awk:

extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKACCELFLAGS;
		        ^^^    ^^
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCA_LENDA_RDISPLA_YOPTIONS;
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCELLTYPE;
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCLISTDRA_GPOS;
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKBUTTONACTION;
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCTREEPOS;

...and so on,

now with the old awk:
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_ACCEL_FLAGS;
                       ^^   ^^^^
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_CALENDAR_DISPLAY_OPTIONS;
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_CELL_TYPE;
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_CLIST_DRAG_POS;
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_BUTTON_ACTION;
extern GtkType GTK_TYPE_CTREE_POS;


Now "awk -f maketypes.awk gtk.defs entries" with SuSE-awk:

  { "GtkAccelFlags", &GTK_TYPE_GTKACCELFLAGS,
                               ^^^    ^^
    GTK_TYPE_FLAGS, _gtkaccelflags_values },
  { "GtkCalendarDisplayOptions", &GTK_TYPE_GTKCA_LENDA_RDISPLA_YOPTIONS,
    GTK_TYPE_FLAGS, _gtkca_lenda_rdispla_yoptions_values },
  { "GtkCellType", &GTK_TYPE_GTKCELLTYPE,
    GTK_TYPE_ENUM, _gtkcelltype_values },
  { "GtkCListDragPos", &GTK_TYPE_GTKCLISTDRA_GPOS,
    GTK_TYPE_ENUM, _gtkclistdra_gpos_values },
  { "GtkButtonAction", &GTK_TYPE_GTKBUTTONACTION,
    GTK_TYPE_FLAGS, _gtkbuttonaction_values },
  { "GtkCTreePos", &GTK_TYPE_GTKCTREEPOS,
    GTK_TYPE_ENUM, _gtkctreepos_values },
  { "GtkCTreeLineStyle", &GTK_TYPE_GTKCTREELINESTYLE,
...

and now with old awk:

  { "GtkAccelFlags", &GTK_TYPE_ACCEL_FLAGS,
                             ^^^    ^^
    GTK_TYPE_FLAGS, _gtk_accel_flags_values },
  { "GtkCalendarDisplayOptions", &GTK_TYPE_CALENDAR_DISPLAY_OPTIONS,
    GTK_TYPE_FLAGS, _gtk_calendar_display_options_values },
  { "GtkCellType", &GTK_TYPE_CELL_TYPE,
    GTK_TYPE_ENUM, _gtk_cell_type_values },
  { "GtkCListDragPos", &GTK_TYPE_CLIST_DRAG_POS,
    GTK_TYPE_ENUM, _gtk_clist_drag_pos_values },
  { "GtkButtonAction", &GTK_TYPE_BUTTON_ACTION,
    GTK_TYPE_FLAGS, _gtk_button_action_values },
  { "GtkCTreePos", &GTK_TYPE_CTREE_POS,
    GTK_TYPE_ENUM, _gtk_ctree_pos_values },
  { "GtkCTreeLineStyle", &GTK_TYPE_CTREE_LINE_STYLE,
...

At last "awk -f maketypes.awk gtk.defs variables" with SuSE:

GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKACCELFLAGS = 0;
                 ^^^    ^^
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCA_LENDA_RDISPLA_YOPTIONS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCELLTYPE = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCLISTDRA_GPOS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKBUTTONACTION = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCTREEPOS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCTREELINESTYLE = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCTREEEXPA_NDERSTYLE = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKCTREEEXPA_NSIONTYPE = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKDEBUGFLAG = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKDESTDEFAULTS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKTA_RGETFLAGS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_GTKARROWTYPE = 0;
... 
and now old awk: 

GtkType GTK_TYPE_ACCEL_FLAGS = 0;
                ^^^   ^^
GtkType GTK_TYPE_CALENDAR_DISPLAY_OPTIONS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_CELL_TYPE = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_CLIST_DRAG_POS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_BUTTON_ACTION = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_CTREE_POS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_CTREE_LINE_STYLE = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_CTREE_EXPANDER_STYLE = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_CTREE_EXPANSION_TYPE = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_DEBUG_FLAG = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_DEST_DEFAULTS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_TARGET_FLAGS = 0;
GtkType GTK_TYPE_ARROW_TYPE = 0;
...

> And see which of those is different from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4, that would
> be a start in tracking down the problem.

I am no awk-expert, so don't ask me, what these differences mean and
how to avoid them. But certainly there is something wrong with the
SuSE awk and the differences are systematic.

Alas, as I know from bad experience, SuSE has become rather deaf to
such reports.

Regards 

Peter B