Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:56:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld breakage during "make depend" at usr.bin/kdump Message-ID: <20011031165636.E516@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200110312138.f9VLcHX45849@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:38:17PM -0800 References: <200110311923.f9VJN3845569@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200110312138.f9VLcHX45849@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:38:17PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > Well, I got beyond that point by hacking src/usr.bin/kdump/mkioctls: > > Index: /usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/mkioctls > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/src/usr.bin/kdump/mkioctls,v > retrieving revision 1.23 > diff -u -r1.23 mkioctls :) I like it when a patch is included. > I'm willing to try re-casting > the awk stuff as Perl, if that's wanted.) Not at all wanted. > Of course, the whole idea that awk (suddenly?) should be unable to cope > with a variable that happens to have a newline in its *value* strikes me > as a POLA violation in the extreme... but see above WRT my awk > experience (and lack thereof).... Why are you upset at us using a Gawk'ims? People seem to understand the good at reducing the number of GCC'ims we have. But there seems some bawk <pun intended> at making our scripts work with with POSIX awk. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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