Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:25:50 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk/gawk Message-ID: <3EC5575E.2090006@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030516173851.GA90719@intruder.bmah.org> References: <20030516173851.GA90719@intruder.bmah.org> <20030516200111.GD57559@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:38:51AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>
> >A quickie question: Could someone tell me why, on RELENG_4, we have a
> >gawk(1) manpage but no gawk executable? Given the manpage links, and
> >the fact that our system awk is really built from gawk sources, I'd
> >expect to have a link from /usr/bin/gawk to /usr/bin/awk (or vice
> >versa).
> >
>
> Perhaps because sheldonh@ was lazy at the time to handle this
> properly in src/gnu/usr.bin/awk/Makefile,v 1.14. It should
> have either be imported as doc/awk.1, as it was before, or
> the Makefile be tweaked like in other similar situations:
>
> /bin/csh/Makefile:
> csh.1: tcsh.man
> ln -sf ${.ALLSRC} ${.TARGET}
>
> No, I don't think that having /usr/bin/gawk is a good idea.
>
Shouldn't one also do s/gawk/awk to the awk.1 man page as well?
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