From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 14:25:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A667537B401; Fri, 16 May 2003 14:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccmmhc02.mchsi.com (sccmmhc02.mchsi.com [204.127.203.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A1543FA3; Fri, 16 May 2003 14:25:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (12-216-242-20.client.mchsi.com[12.216.242.20]) by sccmmhc02.mchsi.com (sccmmhc02) with SMTP id <20030516212550mm200eu4t9e>; Fri, 16 May 2003 21:25:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3EC5575E.2090006@math.missouri.edu> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:25:50 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov References: <20030516173851.GA90719@intruder.bmah.org> <20030516200111.GD57559@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030516173851.GA90719@intruder.bmah.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk/gawk X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 21:25:56 -0000 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? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen