awk/gawk

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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.


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