Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:43:06 +1300 From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: FICL and setting BTX variables Message-ID: <19990112234306.A2738@clear.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199901120832.AAA01933@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 12:32:09AM -0800 References: <19990112213121.B54045@clear.co.nz> <199901120832.AAA01933@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 12:32:09AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Should the resulting helpfile be in the same format as the help.i386 and
> > help.alpha files?
> >
> > I'm presuming the answer is "yes" and I am steaming ahead :)
>
> Yup; the goal is a merge of the two.
OK. Try this. It's a bit messy at the moment (and I'm not sure that my
linked list implementation is as elegant as it could be), but take a look
and see if it's doing the right kind of thing.
Driving instructions:
+ cat help.i386 help.alpha help.sparc | mergehelp.awk >help.unified
+ keep to left
+ watch out for pedestrians
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
#
# $Id: mergehelp.awk,v 1.1 1999/01/12 10:37:38 jabley Exp $
#
# Merge two boot loader help files for FreeBSD 3.0
# Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
BEGIN \
{
state = 0;
first = 0;
ind = 0;
}
# beginning of first command
/^###/ && (state == 0) \
{
state = 1;
next;
}
# entry header
/^# T[[:graph:]]+ (S[[:graph:]]+ )*D[[:graph:]][[:print:]]*$/ && (state == 1) \
{
match($0, " T[[:graph:]]+");
T = substr($0, RSTART + 2, RLENGTH - 2);
match($0, " S[[:graph:]]+");
S = (RLENGTH == -1) ? "" : substr($0, RSTART + 2, RLENGTH - 2);
match($0, " D[[:graph:]][[:print:]]*$");
D = substr($0, RSTART + 2);
# find a suitable place to store this one...
ind++;
if (ind == 1)
{
first = ind;
help[ind, "T"] = T;
help[ind, "S"] = S;
help[ind, "link"] = -1;
} else {
i = first; j = -1;
while (help[i, "T"] help[i, "S"] < T S)
{
j = i;
i = help[i, "link"];
if (i == -1) break;
}
if (i == -1)
{
help[j, "link"] = ind;
help[ind, "link"] = -1;
} else {
help[ind, "link"] = i;
if (j == -1)
first = ind;
else
help[j, "link"] = ind;
}
}
help[ind, "T"] = T;
help[ind, "S"] = S;
help[ind, "D"] = D;
# set our state
state = 2;
next;
}
/^[[:blank:]]+[[:graph:]][[:print:]]*$/ && (state == 2) \
{
sub("^[[:blank:]]+", "");
sub("[[:blank:]]+$", "");
help[ind, "synopsis"] = $0;
help[ind, "text"] = 0;
state = 3;
next;
}
/^[[:blank:]][[:graph:]][[:print:]]*$/ && (state == 3) \
{
sub("^[[:blank:]]+", "");
sub("[[:blank:]]+$", "");
help[ind, "text", help[ind, "text"]] = $0;
help[ind, "text"]++;
next;
}
# end of last command, beginning of next one
/^###/ && (state == 3) \
{
state = 1;
}
# show them what we have (it's already sorted in help[])
END \
{
node = first;
while (node != -1)
{
printf "################################################################################\n";
printf "# T%s ", help[node, "T"];
if (help[node, "S"] != "") printf "S%s ", help[node, "S"];
printf "D%s\n", help[node, "D"];
printf "\n\t%s\n\n", help[node, "synopsis"];
for (i = 0; i < help[node, "text"]; i++)
printf "\t%s\n", help[node, "text", i];
printf "\n";
node = help[node, "link"];
}
}
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