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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:18:14 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/awk main.c.diff
Message-ID:  <20060920071452.J46797@mp2.macomnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060919194959.GA3692@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <200609151328.k8FDSAGM094520@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060919194959.GA3692@dragon.NUXI.org>

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On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, 12:49-0700, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > ru          2006-09-15 13:28:10 UTC
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.bin/awk          main.c.diff
> >   Log:
> >   Don't require a space between -[fv] and its argument.
> >   PR:             bin/86514
>
> I really don't think changes like this should be committed unless they
> also get upstream first.  We have BWK awk and by changing it, things
> "tested" on FreeBSD aren't portable other platforms using BWK awk.

This bug was very annoyed and broke scripts that work on RELENG_4.
The solution were to install gawk.  I don't think this way we have
many possibilities to test BWK.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov



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