Re: awk behaviour?

On 7/28/21 1:36 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:31 AM Michael Butler via freebsd-current <
> freebsd-current@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> I tripped over this while trying to build a local release ..
>>
>> imb@toshi:/home/imb> pkg --version | awk -F. '{print $$1 * 10000 + $$2 *
>> 100 + $$3}'
>> 10001
>>
>> imb@toshi:/home/imb> pkg --version
>> 1.17.1
>>
>> Is this expected?
>>
> 
> Why $$ instead of $? $ isn't expanded in '' expressions, so doubling isn't
> necessary
> unlike in make... With single quotes it works for me:
> 
> % pkg --version | awk -F. '{print $1 * 10000 + $2 * 100 + $3}'
> 11603
> % pkg --version
> 1.16.3
> 
> In awk $$n is $($n), so $$ in this context would evaluate $1 to 1 and then
> $1 to be 1. And then $2 to be 16
> and then $17 to be 0 and then $3 to be 1 and then $1 to be 1 which leads to
> 10001.

What prompted the question was my (obviously poor) attempt to debug and 
resolve this failure when attempting to build a release for i386 on an 
amd64 ..

make -C /usr/src/release  obj
make -C /usr/src/release  ftp cdrom memstick.img mini-memstick.img
mkdir -p dist
cd /usr/src/release/.. && make TARGET_ARCH=i386 TARGET=i386 
distributeworld DISTDIR=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386.i386/release/dist
make[3]: "/usr/obj/usr/src/i386.i386/toolchain-metadata.mk" line 1: 
Using cached toolchain metadata from build at 
vm01.auburn.protected-networks.net on Wed Jul 28 18:01:01 UTC 2021

make[3]: "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1" line 1864: String comparison operator 
must be either == or !=
make[3]: "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1" line 2073: String comparison operator 
must be either == or !=
make[3]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
make[3]: stopped in /usr/src
*** Error code 1

Stop.

	imb