[patches] Re: gawk, mawk, and eglibc

["Peter Seebach" <peter.seebach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:37:27 -0600, Maxim Kuvyrkov  
<maxim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That sounds reasonable. Here is a patch that restricts EGLIBC to gawk.

The one concern I might have:

Has anyone shipped a system where /usr/bin/awk is GNU awk, but there is no  
gawk command installed?  I have this vague recollection that some GNU  
utilities like to drop the 'g' unless they're installed on a system with  
other utilities.  (e.g., GNU make is "gmake" on BSD, but "make" on Linux.)

... Hmm.  Even then, I like this better than the current state, because on  
such a system, it's quite possible to imagine configure picking up a  
historical-SysV nawk, or mawk, instead of finding the awk it really  
wants.  Nevermind.

-s
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