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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:44:52 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Cc:        Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK
Message-ID:  <20011026124451.B33751@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <200110260736.f9Q7abh65198@gits.dyndns.org>; from clefevre@citeweb.net on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:36:37AM %2B0200
References:  <20011025221626.I11022@buffoon.automagic.org> <200110260736.f9Q7abh65198@gits.dyndns.org>

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:36:37AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> Joe Abley wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:44:25AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> [snip]
> > > you always have the choice to use gawk from ports...
> > 
> > Absolutely. I agree, and I would be happy to banish gawkisms from
> > /usr/bin/awk. I'm just saying there is an existing population of
> > scripts which begin "#!/usr/bin/awk -f" that may break, and that
> > for that reason appropriate warnings should be given.
> 
> forgot about that !

This would be easily fixed with NO_AWK and a devel/gawk port which
could be built with PREFIX=/, no?

G'luck,
Peter

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