Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 00:31:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk/gawk Message-ID: <20030516213100.GB67874@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3EC5575E.2090006@math.missouri.edu> References: <20030516173851.GA90719@intruder.bmah.org> <20030516200111.GD57559@sunbay.com> <3EC5575E.2090006@math.missouri.edu>
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On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:25:50PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>=20
> >On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:38:51AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> >
> >>A quickie question: Could someone tell me why, on RELENG_4, we have a
> >>gawk(1) manpage but no gawk executable? Given the manpage links, and
> >>the fact that our system awk is really built from gawk sources, I'd
> >>expect to have a link from /usr/bin/gawk to /usr/bin/awk (or vice
> >>versa).
> >>
> >
> >Perhaps because sheldonh@ was lazy at the time to handle this
> >properly in src/gnu/usr.bin/awk/Makefile,v 1.14. It should
> >have either be imported as doc/awk.1, as it was before, or
> >the Makefile be tweaked like in other similar situations:
> >
> >/bin/csh/Makefile:
> >csh.1: tcsh.man
> > ln -sf ${.ALLSRC} ${.TARGET}
> >
> >No, I don't think that having /usr/bin/gawk is a good idea.
> >
>=20
> Shouldn't one also do s/gawk/awk to the awk.1 man page as well?
>=20
Yes, probably, if we so much care about RELENG_4 these days. ;)
Cheers,
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