Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:30:34 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld breakage during "make depend" at usr.bin/kdump Message-ID: <20011031233034.B59988@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200111010549.fA15nPG47227@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:49:25PM -0800 References: <200110312159.f9VLx1I45943@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200111010549.fA15nPG47227@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:49:25PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > David O'Brien has suggested another (better, I think) approach for the > mkioctls patch. I'm reporting what I (had already) used. Actually mine had a fatal flaw. I committed your version. :-) > For the regex/doc/Makefile, it seems that gawk allows the value for -v > to be adjacent to the -v itself, while the -CURRENT awk works better if > there is whitespace separating them. Committed. > * It seems that while gawk supports the POSIX "bracket expressions" > (POSIXese for "character classes", basically), the awk we are now > using in -CURRENT does not appear to do so. (Again, I cite empirical > evidence, vs. documentation.) Committed. > * Since no lines matched, the "first" variable remained set at 0, and > since the help array was empty, the loop termination condition in the > END block could never be reached. I believe this to be suboptimal. > I found that by changing the intial value of "first" to -1, that made Left out for now. I don't know what I had before -- I thought I was running Bell-Labs awk as the native awk. That is how I found the other problems with the loader's awk scripts in the past. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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