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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)

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