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authorJuergen Kahrs <Juergen.Kahrs@googlemail.com>2013-05-16 21:08:20 +0200
committerJuergen Kahrs <Juergen.Kahrs@googlemail.com>2013-05-16 21:08:20 +0200
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into cmake
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-rw-r--r--README_d/README.pc15
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diff --git a/README_d/ChangeLog b/README_d/ChangeLog
index 814b2724..3bd99ad0 100644
--- a/README_d/ChangeLog
+++ b/README_d/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-05-14 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * README.pc: Update the pc build and test instructions.
+
2013-05-09 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* 4.1.0: Release tar ball made.
diff --git a/README_d/README.pc b/README_d/README.pc
index d989e5ca..9971d7ba 100644
--- a/README_d/README.pc
+++ b/README_d/README.pc
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ Copy the files in the `pc' directory (EXCEPT for `ChangeLog') to the
directory with the rest of the gawk sources. (The subdirectories of
`pc' need not be copied.) The Makefile contains a configuration
section with comments, and may need to be edited in order to work
-with your make utility.
+with your make utility. If you are building with MinGW, copy the
+file Makefile.ext to extension/Makefile.
The "prefix" line in the Makefile is used during the install of gawk
(and in building igawk.bat and igawk.cmd). Since the libraries for
@@ -40,6 +41,10 @@ OS/2 versions. A list of targets will be printed if the make command is
given without a target. As an example, to build gawk using the djgpp
tools, enter "make djgpp".
+For the MinGW build, after you build in the top-level directory, chdir
+to the extension subdirectory and say "make" there to build the
+extensions.
+
Testing and installing gawk
---------------------------
@@ -54,9 +59,11 @@ and batch files. See the configuration section of the makefile.
The file test/Makefile will need some editing (especially for DOS). A
sample makefile with comments appears in pc/Makefile.tst, and can be
-used to modify test/Makefile for your platform. In addition, some
-files in the test directory may need to have their end-of-line markers
-converted, as described in Makefile.tst.
+used to modify test/Makefile for your platform. For starters, just
+copy pc/Makefile.tst to test/Makefile, then walk through the variables
+defined at the beginning and change them as appropriate for your
+setup. In addition, some files in the test directory may need to have
+their end-of-line markers converted, as described in Makefile.tst.
As with building gawk, the OS, shell, and long filename issues come into
play when testing, too. If you are testing gawk on a LFN aware system with