Wed Jan 22 21:51:59 IST 2014 ============================ On Solaris 10 x86, Solaris 11 x86, Solaris 10 sparc and Solaris 11 sparc, with the Sun compiler (Solaris Studio 12.3) you need to use c99 -Xc -D_XPG6 to correctly compile gawk and the extensions. Various tests can fail if the necessary locales aren't installed. Arnold Robbins arnold@skeeve.com