From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 1 11:40:32 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8479137B405; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15zNiQ-000NtA-00; Thu, 01 Nov 2001 21:41:26 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "David E. O'Brien" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/ficl/softwords softcore.awk In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:14:16 PST." <200111011914.fA1JEGD49043@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 21:41:26 +0200 Message-ID: <91831.1004643686@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:14:16 PST, "David E. O'Brien" wrote: > Modified files: > sys/boot/ficl/softwords softcore.awk > Log: > Substitute "[:space:]" with the character constants it expands to. > This was a silent 'failure' when using Bell-Labs awk. David, why are you taking this approach? Why are you worsening the quality of our awk code [1] instead of ensuring that we have an awk interpreter that adherers to standards? Can I suggest you take the approach I outline in another message, where you reconnect gawk to the build as the system awk until such time as these wrinkles have been ironed out properly? Ciao, Sheldon. [1] In this case, the code becomes susceptible to cut-n-paste damage that it was previously impervious to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message