From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 21:47:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCF316A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:47:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sjc.ihostsxode.net (sjc.ihostsxode.net [129.41.16.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3068443D3F for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:47:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mark-and-erika.com) Received: from millerlite.local.mark-and-erika.com ([151.205.245.38]) by sjc.ihostsxode.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i69LlYsh021976; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:47:34 -0600 (MDT) Received: from millerlite.local.mark-and-erika.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) id i69LlCUe062659; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:47:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mark@mark-and-erika.com) Received: (from mfrank@localhost)i69LlB0p062658; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:47:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mark@mark-and-erika.com) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:47:11 -0400 From: Mark Frank To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040709214711.GG11771@millerlite.local.mark-and-erika.com> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040708172916.GB15679@millerlite.local.mark-and-erika.com> <20040708192245.GA11705@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040708202313.GA11771@millerlite.local.mark-and-erika.com> <20040708210535.GA57010@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040709192245.GC11771@millerlite.local.mark-and-erika.com> <20040709204735.GA37067@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040709204735.GA37067@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Certified: Outgoing email is certified Windows Free. X-Unexpected-Header: The Spanish Inquisition X-System: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: "make search" oddity X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:47:40 -0000 * On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:47:35PM +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > IGNORECASE support hasn't been added to the one-true-awk in 5.x as far > as I can tell. I can find no mention of it searching through the > sources via cvsweb.cgi -- mind you, that may well be because I just > didn't manage to search very effectively. Could you try running this > command on a 5.x system? > > % echo aB | awk 'BEGIN { IGNORECASE=1; } /ab/ { print "IGNORECASE works" }' > > On 4.x that prints out 'IGNORECASE works' -- from what you've said, > I'd expect no output on 5.x True. No output. > Looks like you've spotted a bug. Great. Then I'm not crazy...in this matter anyway. > You can certainly install gawk from ports if you want, but I wouldn't > go replacing the system version with it -- awk(1) is vital for > rebuilding world, kernel and you wouldn't want to run the risk of > breaking that. After all, being able to do a case insensitive search > of the ports INDEX is not actually that important in the grand scheme > of things. That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation. -- Mark Frank "The fix is only temporary...unless it works." - Red Green