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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:53:39 -0600
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>
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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
broken as a result of the change, therefore I'm starting to wonder
if a NO_AWK macro for make.conf might not be appropriate. The change
hasn't broken any of my buildworld's since the beginning, although
a naked buildworld without any awk present will certainly fall over
hard. Regardless, I would like to float (and ONLY that) the question
of adding a NO_AWK macro to make.conf.  It can be done in a way
that will not break a bootstrap buildworld, yet still allow a
third-party awk to be installed into the production system, and I
have a(n almost complete) set of patches to submit that accomplish
this. So the question is: is there interest? If so, I'll put the
patches up (only against STABLE for now I'm afraid) for review.


--lyndon

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