Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:14:34 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200110250153.f9P1rd0H071528@atg.aciworldwide.com>; from lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:53:39PM -0600 References: <200110250153.f9P1rd0H071528@atg.aciworldwide.com>
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I think this is more of an arch issue.
* Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> [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
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