Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:40:07 -0800 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Cc: david@catwhisker.org, current@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld breakage during "make depend" at usr.bin/kdump Message-ID: <200111011840.KAA23489@windsor.research.att.com> References: <200110312159.f9VLx1I45943@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200111010549.fA15nPG47227@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200111011614.fA1GE8P25519@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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>> 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.
>
>This would be another bug if true.
Perhaps in breaking backwards compatability with gawk, but
IEEE Std 1003.1-200x says:
The awk utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of IEEE
Std 1003.1-200x, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
...
12.2 Utility Syntax Guidelines
...
Guideline 6: Each option and option-argument should be a separate
argument, except as noted in Section 12.1 (on page
199), item (2).
I don't think that any of the exceptions in section 12.1 item (2) apply
to awk's -v argument. POSIX *permits* but does not *require* the
gawk behavior.
Bill
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