From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 24 19:14:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CE337B405 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id B105781D05; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:14:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:14:34 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org> References: <200110250153.f9P1rd0H071528@atg.aciworldwide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110250153.f9P1rd0H071528@atg.aciworldwide.com>; from lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:53:39PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think this is more of an arch issue. * Lyndon Nerenberg [011024 20:53] wrote: > NOTE: THIS IS A STRAWMAN PROPOSAL! Take it all with a grain of > salt! > > For a long while now I've been running with the bwk version of awk > in preference to the GNU gawk shipped in the base OS. Nothing has > broken as a result of the change, therefore I'm starting to wonder > if a NO_AWK macro for make.conf might not be appropriate. The change > hasn't broken any of my buildworld's since the beginning, although > a naked buildworld without any awk present will certainly fall over > hard. Regardless, I would like to float (and ONLY that) the question > of adding a NO_AWK macro to make.conf. It can be done in a way > that will not break a bootstrap buildworld, yet still allow a > third-party awk to be installed into the production system, and I > have a(n almost complete) set of patches to submit that accomplish > this. So the question is: is there interest? If so, I'll put the > patches up (only against STABLE for now I'm afraid) for review. Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with bawk? Any drawbacks? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message