Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 21:41:26 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/ficl/softwords softcore.awk Message-ID: <91831.1004643686@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:14:16 PST." <200111011914.fA1JEGD49043@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:14:16 PST, "David E. O'Brien" wrote:
> Modified files:
> sys/boot/ficl/softwords softcore.awk
> Log:
> Substitute "[:space:]" with the character constants it expands to.
> This was a silent 'failure' when using Bell-Labs awk.
David, why are you taking this approach? Why are you worsening the
quality of our awk code [1] instead of ensuring that we have an awk
interpreter that adherers to standards?
Can I suggest you take the approach I outline in another message, where
you reconnect gawk to the build as the system awk until such time as
these wrinkles have been ironed out properly?
Ciao,
Sheldon.
[1] In this case, the code becomes susceptible to cut-n-paste damage
that it was previously impervious to.
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