From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 13:50:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5C037B403 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:50:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9PKoME08399 for arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:50:22 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <20011025135022.A80517@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org References: <200110250153.f9P1rd0H071528@atg.aciworldwide.com> <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500 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-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > 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 ... > Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with > bawk? Any drawbacks? bawk is license friendly for us. I've gotten all the gawk'isms out of our tree and have run bawk as my system awk for a while. Want me to just do the vendor import and cut us over? I have not done this yet, because I know bawk can be slower than gawk and didn't want to fight that battle. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message