From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 31 16:56:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 323A237B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:56:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fA10uat00741; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:56:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:56:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: David Wolfskill Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld breakage during "make depend" at usr.bin/kdump Message-ID: <20011031165636.E516@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200110311923.f9VJN3845569@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200110312138.f9VLcHX45849@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110312138.f9VLcHX45849@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:38:17PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:38:17PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > Well, I got beyond that point by hacking src/usr.bin/kdump/mkioctls: > > Index: /usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/mkioctls > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/src/usr.bin/kdump/mkioctls,v > retrieving revision 1.23 > diff -u -r1.23 mkioctls :) I like it when a patch is included. > I'm willing to try re-casting > the awk stuff as Perl, if that's wanted.) Not at all wanted. > Of course, the whole idea that awk (suddenly?) should be unable to cope > with a variable that happens to have a newline in its *value* strikes me > as a POLA violation in the extreme... but see above WRT my awk > experience (and lack thereof).... Why are you upset at us using a Gawk'ims? People seem to understand the good at reducing the number of GCC'ims we have. But there seems some bawk at making our scripts work with with POSIX awk. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message