From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 1 0:41:54 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D15C37B401; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 00:41:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fA18ffH71097; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 00:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 00:41:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common merge_help.awk Message-ID: <20011101004140.A71075@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200111010716.fA17GZH92639@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011101111853.B66386@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011101111853.B66386@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:18:53AM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:18:53AM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 23:16:35 -0800, David E. O'Brien wrote: > > obrien 2001/10/31 23:16:35 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/boot/common merge_help.awk > > Log: > > Bell-Labs AWK does not support POSIX "bracket expressions" (POSIXese for > > "character classes", basically). So change them to their character > > representation. > > So, why we switch from GNU awk to non-POSIX compatible one? An POSIX in this context refers to the syntax of [[:alpha:]]. It does not mean the POSIX awk must support that feature. Garrett, what does POSiX have to say about AWK? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message